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PRINCIPAL’S  REPORT 
REGISTER 
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“If  I mistake  not, 
the  object  of  those 
who  were  promi- 
nent in  originating 
the  measure  estab- 
lishing this  school, 
and  who  were  ac- 
tive in  securing  its 
enactment  into  law, 
was  to  make  special 
provision  for  those 
who  were  to  teach 
in  our  COUNTRY 

Schools. 

This  purpose  was 
highly  commend- 
able and  patriotic.” 

— John  R.  Tanner, 
Governor  of  lib 
inois,  December  21, 


1902 


The  Military  Tract  Normal  School. 


Annual  Report 


of  the 


Western  Illinois  State  Normal  School 


for 


The  Year  Ending  August  30,  1907 


Catalogue  for  1906-07 


THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 


EX-OFFICIO— THE  SUPERINTENDENT 
OF  PUBLIC  INSTRUCTION, 
FRACES  G.  BLAIR, 
SPRINGFIELD. 


Appointed  by  the  Governor 


LOUIS  H.  HANNA 
FRED  R.  JELLIFF 
JOHN  M.  KEEFER 

J.  F.  MAINS 

JOHN  A.  MEAD . . . 


. . . Monmouth 
. . . Galesburg 

Macomb 

Stronghurst 
Augusta 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  BOARD 


LOUIS  H.  HANNA President 

JOHN  A.  MEAD Secretary 

ALBERT  EADS Treasurer 


CALENDAR  1907-08 


Registration  Day September  30,  1907 

Autumn  Quarter.  , . .begins October  1,  1907 

Winter  “ “ “ “ . .December  80,  1907 

Spring  “ “ ....““  March  23,  1908 

Summer  “ “ “ “ June  15,  1908 


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The  Faculty 


Alfred  Bayliss,  M.  S (Hillsdale), 

PRINCIPAL. 

Samuel  B.  Hursh,  A.  M.,  (Lombard), 

VICE  PRINCIPAL, 

English. 

Frederick  G.  Bonser,  M.  S.,  (University  of  Illinois), 

Education. 

David  L.  Arnold,  A.  M.,  (Leland  Stanford,  Jr.), 

Mathematics. 

Oliver  M.  Dickerson,  Ph.  D.,  (University  of  Illinois), 

History. 

William  J.  Sutherland,  Ph.B.,  (University  of  Wisconsin), 

Geography. 

John  P.  Drake,  A.  M.,  (Wesleyan), 

Physical  Science. 

John  T.  Johnson,  A.  B.,  (University  of  Illinois), 

Biology. 

Susie  B.  Davis,  A.  M.,  (Milton), 

Reading. 

Maud  Shamel, 

Music. 

Jesse  Buckner, 

Drawing. 

Louis  H.  Burch, 

Manual  Arts. 

Eva  Colby, 

Household  Arts. 


Nina  B.  Lamkin,  B.  L.,  ( University  of  Illinois) 

Physical  Culture. 


Martha  J.  Hanna,  A.  B.,  (Monmouth), 

Latin. 

Charles  A Barnett,  A.  M.,  (University  of  Kansas), 

Atheletics,  and  Instructor  in  History. 

Cora  M.  Hamilton, 

Head  Training  Teacher. 

Caroline  M.  Grote, 

9th  and  10th  Grades. 

Lois  Coffey, 

Training,  7th  and  8th  grades. 

Blanche  E.  Campbell, 

Training,  5th  and  6th  Grades. 

Lilian  C.  Bergold,  Ph.  B.,  (University  of  Chicago), 

Training,  3rd  and  4th  Grades 

Bertha  M.  Bentley, 

Training,  1st  and  2nd  Grades. 

Mabel  Carney, 

Training,  Ungraded  School. 

Margaret  Dunbar,  B.  L.,  (Monmouth)  B.  L.  S.,  (Univer- 
sity of  Illinois). 

Librarian. 

Fanny  R.  Jackson,  A.  B.,  (Rockford)  B.L.  S.t  (University 
oj  Illinois). 

Assistant  Librarian. 


Principal’s  Report 


To  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

Gentlemen : — The  following  is  my  report  of  the 
affairs  of  the  Western  Illinois  State  Normal  School 
for  the  year  beginning  September  24,  1906  and 
ending  August  30,  1907. 

There  were  enrolled  during  the  period  483 
students  in  the  Normal,  Academic,  and  Summer 
schools;  and  220  pupils,  including  32  in  District  56, 
McDonough  county,  in  the  Elementary  school, 
whole  number  703. 

Of  these,  27  young  men  and  79  young  women 
were  of  Normal  grade,  that  is,  either  five  or  six 
years  in  advance  of  the  highest  grammar  grade, 
or  one  or  two  years  in  advance  of  the  fourth  year 
of  secondary  school  work.  21  boys  and  60  girls 
were  of  senior  academic  grade,  which  corresponds 
to  the  last  two  years  of  the  best  four-year  high 
schools.  53  boys  and  51  girls  were  of  the  lower 
academic  grade,  corresponding  to  the  first  two 
years  of  the  best  four-year  high  school  courses. 
There  were  244  students  in  the  Fourth  or  Summer 
quarter,  of  whom  190  had  not  been  previously  en- 
rolled during  this  year. 


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The  average  ages  of  this  student  body  at  the 
time  of  enrollment  were  as  follows: 

In  the  two  lower  academic  grades — boys  16.8 
years;  girls  16.3  years. 

In  the  two  upper  academic  grades — boys  18.4 
years;  girls  18.3  years. 

In  the  Normal  or  student  teacher  grades — men 
21.2  years;  women  19.7  years. 

The  average  age  of  students  in  the  Summer 
quarter  who  had  not  previously  been  enrolled  and 
most  of  whom  were  working  teachers  was  23  years. 

The  Elementary  school  was  composed  of  child- 
ren from  6 to  14  years  of  age,  an  equal  number  in 
each  of  the  eight  grades,  except  that  the  school  in 
District  56  was  an  ungraded  school. 

Of  the  entire  enrollment  233,  or  48  per  cent, 
were  residents  of  McDonough  county. 

Of  those  who  were  enrolled  in  the  Summer 
quarter,  only  60,  or  24i  per  cent,  were  residents  of 
McDonough  county.  Other  counties  were  repre- 


sented  as  follows: 

Adams 27 

Brown 

..1 

Bureau 

. ..3 

Cass 

..4 

Christian . . 

. .2 

Pulton 

..27 

Hancock .... 

.23 

Henderson . 

..8 

Henry 

. ..5 

Knox 

.22 

Logan 

. .1 

La  Salle.  .. 

. ..1 

Mason 

..1 

McLean . . . 

. .1 

Mercer. . . . 

..16 

Morgan 

..1 

Peoria  .... 

..1 

Pike 

..10 

Rock  Island . 

. 12 

Sangamon . 

..2 

Scott 

...2 

Stark 

...1 

Schuyler . . 

.37 

Whiteside . 

. ..3 

Warren . . . . 

29 

Arkansas-1;  Iowa-1;  Missouri-1;  Nebraska-1; 
Philippine  Islands-7. 


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5 young  men  and  17  young  women  were  gradu- 
ated from  the  school  June  6,  1907. 

The  Faculty. 

Miss  Edna  Keith,  training  teacher  for  the 
first  and  second  grades,  resigned  December  24, 
1906;  and  Mr.  S.  L.  Smith,  instructor  in  drawing 
resigned  April  1,  1907.  Both  of  these  teachers 
had  been  members  of  the  faculty  from  the  opening 
of  the  school  in  1902,  and  their  departure  was 
much  regretted  by  their  associates  and  the  stu- 
dents. 

Miss  Bertha  M.  Bentley,  formerly  a critic 
teacher  in  the  Cheney,  Washington,  State  Normal 
School,  succeeded  Miss  Keith  January  1,  1907. 
Miss  May  Graves,  a graduate  student  of  the  Art 
Institute  in  Chicago,  temporarily  succeeded  Mr. 
Smith,  Miss  Jessie  Buckner,  formerly  Supervisor 
of  Drawing  in  the  Galesburg  City  Schools,  having 
been  regularly  appointed  June  6,  1907. 

Miss  Nina  B.  Lamkin,  formerly  Physical 
Director  of  the  Jewish  Manual  Training  School, 
Chicago,  was  provisionally  appointed  Instructor 
in  Physical  Culture,  March  1,  1907,  and  regularly 
appointed  June  6,  1907. 

Miss  Eva  Colby,  formerly  instructor  in  the 
Freeport  high  school,  was  appointed  Instructor  in 
Household  Arts  June  6,  1907. 

With  these  changes,  and  exceptions,  the 
teachers  have  been  the  same  through  the  entire 
year.  I submit  a brief  summary  of  the  amount 
and  kind  of  work  done  by  each  of  them. 


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PSYCHOLOGY  AND  THE  PRINCIPLES  OF 
EDUCATION 

Courses  of  Instruction. 

The  following  courses  have  been  given: 

2 in  Elementary  Psychology  with  56  students. 

2 in  the  History  and  Principles  of  Education 
with  24  students. 

1 in  Principles  of  Teaching  with  45  students. 

1 in  School  and  Library  Administration  with 
12  students. 

Student  Teaching,  on  the  one  half  day  plan,  23 
students. 

Student  Teaching,  on  the  one  period  plan,  45 
students. 

Teachers5  meetings  with  student  teachers  have 
been  held  weekly,  on  alternate  weeks  under  the 
direction  of  the  Head  Instructor  in  Education,  the 
intervening  weeks  under  the  direction  of  the  sev- 
eral Training  Teachers.  Definite  and  detailed  out- 
lines have  been  provided  for  many  of  these  meet- 
ings. This  work  has  been  of  much  value  in  develop- 
ing a spirit  of  unity,  interest  and  ethusiasm  in  the 
Training  School. 

During  the  first  two  thirds  of  the  fall  term,  on 
request  of  a number  of  the  city  teachers  of  Macomb, 
meetings  were  held  taking  up  a number  of  ques- 
tions of  general  pedagogy  which  were  attended  by 
quite  a proportion  of  the  local  teachers  as  well  as 
by  our  own.  The  pressure  of  necessary  work  made 
it  impossible  to  continue  these  during  the  year. 

Training  School  Course  of  Study. 

A work  which  has  engaged  us  in  a formal  way 
for  from  one  to  four  periods  each  week  through- 
out the  year  has  been  the  development  of  a course 
of  study  for  the  Training  School.  Head  Instruc- 
tors from  the  departments  have  brought  together 


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many  valuable  outlines  of  material  which  have 
been  thoroughly  discussed  with  the  Training  School 
teachers,  revised  where  it  seemed  wise,  and  finally 
reduced  to  a form  most  desirable  for  use  in  the 
grades.  The  copy  of  this  work  will  soon  be  ready 
for  the  press.  Sufficient  effort  and  attention  have 
been  given  to  the  general  plan  and  details  of  this 
work  to  make  us  feel  that  it  will  constitute  a real 
contribution  in  elementary  education. 

School  Garden. 

Near  the  agricultural  experiment  plots,  a tract 
of  land  8 rods  in  length  by  24  feet  in  breadth  has 
been  plowed  and  is  in  use  for  school  garden  pur- 
poses by  the  grades  of  the  Training  School.  As 
a further  development  of  this,  we  hope  to  see  a 
tract  set  aside  for  herbs,  shrubs,  brush  fruits  of  all 
kinds,  typical  fruit  trees,  etc.,  for  the  purpose  ol 
teaching  their  propagation,  care,  protection  from 
pests,  improvement,  etc.  It  appeals  to  us  that 
every  plant,  shrub  and  tree  producing  fruit  which 
is  grown  here  should  find  a place  in  such  a school 
garden  as  ours  should  be,  here  in  the  midst  of  such 
an  extensive  agricultural  district.  An  agricul- 
tural map  of  United  States  with  each  state  and 
center  showing  its  leading  agricultural  crop  grow- 
ing each  year,  in  so  far  as  this  is  possible,  has 
suggested  itself  as  a possibility  if  space  may  be 
available,  as  a future  development  in  this  line. 

Pedagogical  Library  and  Museum. 

A beginning  has  been  made  in  a library  of 
books  placed  on  file  for  examination  purposes  by 
the  leading  school  book  publishing  houses.  It  is 
hoped  that  this  may  grow  into  a most  valuable 
source  of  material  and  basis  of  comparative  study 
of  texts  for  Training  Teachers  and  methods  courses. 
91  books  are  now  in  this  library.  Appropriate 


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shelf  room  is  needed  as  this  enterprise  is  sure  to 
grow.  Open  shelving  is  by  far  the  best  for  such 
a library. 

The  pedagogical  museum  is  made  up  of  col- 
lections of  teaching  material,  and  a good  beginning 
is  here  also  in  evidence.  Without  expense  to  us 
save  that  of  correspondence,  the  following  have 
been  received: 

A cabinet  exhibit  of  the  Walter  Baker  Choco- 
late manufacturers. 

A cabinet  exhibit  and  pictures  of  Huyler’s 
Cocoa  manufacturers. 

A cabinet  exhibit  showing  steps  in  the  manu- 
facture of  the  Esterbrook  steel  pens. 

An  exhibit  showing  steps  in  the  making  of  the 
Dixon  lead  pencils. 

Two  large  and  well  illustrated  books  giving  the 
history  and  detailed  description  of  the  manufacture 
of  the  A.  W.  Faber  pencils. 

A very  interesting  and  valuable  exhibit  show- 
ing the  manufacture  and  variety  of  products  of 
Carborundum. 

26  bottles  from  the  Standard  Oil  Company 
showing  numerous  types  of  crude  petroleum  and 
the  products  made  from  it. 

An  exhibit  of  cotton,  including  plants,  closed 
and  open  bolls  and  products  of  various  kinds;  pre- 
sented by  a friend.  The  children  made  a very  nice 
cabinet  for  this  in  manual  training  work. 

8 sets  of  educational  games  by  the  Cincinnati 
Game  Company. 

We  are  especially  desirous  of  building  up  this 
pedagogical  library  and  museum.  Many  teachers 
are  anxious  to  keep  up  with  progress  in  text  books 
and  school  supplies  but  are  not  familiar  with  pub- 
lishers’ addresses  and  publications  nor  with  sources 
of  supplies.  As  the  leading  center  of  educational 
thought  in  the  commuuity,  the  Normal  School 
should  have  on  hand  where  they  may  be  examined 


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and  evaluated,  all  the  best  things  in  school  books, 
school  furniture  and  equipment  and  teaching  ma- 
terials together  with  their  prices  and  the  sources 
from  which  they  may  be  obtained. 

Card  Catalog  of  Periodical  Literature. 

By  the  generous  and  interested  help  of  the  sen- 
ior class,  there  has  been  made  a card  catalog  of  all 
the  scattered  periodical  literature  bearing  directly 
upon  educational  questions  in  our  library.  This 
catalog  covers  22  periodicals  among  which  are  the 
Reports  of  the  Commissioner  of  Education  and  the 
National  Educational  Association,  and  includes 
over  4600  titles.  These  have  been  carefully  clas- 
sified under  184  heads.  To  illustrate  the  utility  of 
this  plan,  it  may  be  sufficient  to  note  that  in  the 
class  labeled  4 ‘Normal  Schools”,  there  are  over  100 
titles,  covering  every  phase  of  normal  school  work. 
This  catalog  makes  usable  and  easily  accessible  a 
large  and  most  valuable  source  of  material  bear- 
ing upon  every  line  of  work  in  which  we  are  in- 
terested but  which  has  not  been  used  because  of  the 
difficulty  in  finding  it. 

Other  Activities. 

The  Head  Instructor  in  Education  attended  the 
State  Teachers’  Association  during  the  Holiday 
vacation;  delivered  an  address  to  the  city  teachers 
of  Springfield  on  January  25;  addressed  the  city  and 
neighboring  teachers  of  Abingdon  on  April  13; 
prepared  a paper  for  the  Central  Illinois  Teachers’ 
Association  at  Jacksonville  on  March  22;  delivered 
the  annual  address  to  the  graduating  class  of  the 
Avon  High  School  on  May  26;  and  was  invited  to 
go  on  program  of  the  Los  Angeles  meeting  of  the 
National  Educational  Association  for  next  July. 

We  have  cooperated  with  Teachers  College, 
Columbia  University,  in  making  two  studies  in  ele- 


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mentary  education,  namely:  1.  The  Effect  of  Sys- 
tematic Training  in  “How  to  Study”  in  Geography 
in  the  Sixth  and  Seventh  Grades.  2.  The  voca- 
tional Interests  of  Children  of  the  Seventh  and 
Eighth  Grades  as  a Factor  in  Determining  Improve- 
ments in  the  Course  of  Study  for  these  Grades.  We 
have  also  aided,  in  some  measure,  the  department 
of  psychology  in  the  University  of  Illinois  in  a 
Study  in  Types  of  Imagery  in  Children.  We  value 
these  opportunities  as  they  stimulate  our  own 
work. 

Frederick  G.  Bonser. 

ENGLISH 

First  Quarter,  1906-1907. 

Brief  history  of  the  development  of  the  drama 
with  the  reading  Antigone  and  Alcestis  from  the 
Greek  Drama,  and  King  Lear  and  Twelfth  Night 
from  Shakespeare.  Special  study  of  plot  and  the 
ethical  elements  of  Shakespeare’s  tragedies. 

Essay — Studies  from  Carlyle  and  Emerson. 
Essay  on  Burns.  Nature  and  Compensation.  31 
students.  Seniors  and  Juniors. 

English  Literature  First  Semester,  1906-1907. 
The  work  was  based  largely  on  the  text  From  Mil- 
ton  to  Tennyson,  with  some  study  of  Romanticism 
of  the  Nineteenth  Century.  Studies  from  Milton, 
Thompson,  Gray,  Scott,  Wordsworth  etc.  30  stu- 
dents. Academic. 

ART  OF  TEACHING  LANGUAGE  AND 
LITERATURE 

Second  Quarter,  1906-1907. 

This  course  dealt  with  the  work  of  teaching 
these  subjects  in  the  grades.  The  last  half  of  the 
quarter  was  devoted  to  the  study,  interpretation 
and  classification  of  children’s  literature.  24  stu- 
dents. Seniors  and  Juniors. 


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COMPOSITION— LITERATURE 

Second  Semester,  1906-1907. 

Scott  and  Denney’s  text  was  used.  A some 
what  careful  study  of  the  paragraph  and  the  top- 
ical thought. 

Two  practice  themes  per  week  were  required 
and  a final  outlined  and  written  theme. 

Practice  themes  were  required  in  Description, 
Narrative  and  Exposition.  17  students.  Academic. 

GRAMMAR  AND  COMPOSITION 

First  Quarter,  1906-1907. 

The  work  was  based  on  Gardner,  Kittridge 
and  Arnold’s  Elementary  Composition  and  consist- 
ed mainly  of  practice  Composition  but  with  some 
study  of  formal  grammar.  31  students.  Junior 
Academic. 


Second  Quarter. 

Same  as  above  course. 

Third  Semester. 

Same  as  above,  with  more  work  in  formal  grammar. 

AMERICAN  LITERATURE 

This  course  dealt  briefly  with  the  early  pre- 
revolutionary writing,  and  much  more  fully  with 
the  literature  of  America  from  1820  down  to  the 
present.  Special  study  was  given  to  Bryant,  Irv- 
ing, Hawthorne,  Emerson,  Longfellow,  Whittier 
and  Lowell.  Reading  and  written  report  on  one 
novel.  27  students. 


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REVIEW  OF  ENGLISH  GRAMMAR 

Third  Quarter,  1906-1907. 

A general  review  of  technical  grammar  with  a 
view  to  teaching  it  and  a discussion  of  the  essen- 
tials in  grammar,  and  special  work  on  sentence, 
structure  and  punctuation.  6 Students. 

S.  B.  Hursh. 


MATHEMATICS 

During  the  year  the  following  classes  have 
been  conducted  :- 

(1)  Four  classes  in  Elementary  Algebra,  ac- 
commodating about  140  students,  and  covering  the 
usual  work  of  the  first  year.  Three  terms  each. 

(2)  One  class  in  Algebra,  accommodating  45 
students,  and  completing  nearly  as  much  as  the 
usual  Freshman  work  in  college.  Three  terms. 

(3)  One  class  in  plane  Geometry,  accommo- 
dating 25  students,  and  covering  the  usual  high 
school  work.  Three  terms. 

(4)  One  class  in  Solid  Geometry,  accommodat- 
ing 6 students,  and  covering  the  usual  high  school 
work.  One  term. 

(5)  Two  classes  in  Arithmetic,  accommodat- 
ing about  25  students.  One  term  each. 

(6)  Two  classes  in  professional  Arithmetic, 
accommodating  29  students.  These  classes  were- 
for  the  especial  benefit  of  students  about  ready  to 
enter  the  field  as  teachers.  One  term  each. 

David  L.  Arnold. 


HISTORY 


1st  Quarter  -{ 


American  History  (5)  N. 
English  History  (14)  N. 
Modern  European  History  (29) 
Greek  History  (33)  9 10 


A. 


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History  of  the  United  States  (15)  N. 
Government  of  the  United  States 
2nd  Quarter  -j  (7)  N. 

History  of  Modern  England  (17)  A. 
History  of  Rome  (29)  9 10. 


3rd  Quarter 


History  of  Illinois,  i course  (23)  N. 
History  for  the  lower  grades  I course 
(22)  N. 

History  of  Revolutionary  Europe  (5) 
A & N. 

American  History  (20)  A. 


In  addition  to  the  above  work,  I have  been  pre- 
paring a course  of  study  for  the  eight  grades — that 
is,  as  far  as  history  is  concerned.  That  piece  of 
work  is  now  nearly  completed  and  will  be  ready  for 
publication  within  two  weeks.  New  courses  have 
also  been  planned  for  History  and  Civics  above  the 
eighth  grade,  and  a start  has  been  made  toward 
selecting  books  for  the  library  for  actual  work  in 
these  subjects. 

O.  M.  Dickerson. 


GEOGRAPHY 

The  instruction  in  Geography  during  the  past 
three  quarters  has  been  quite  “out  of  the  ordi- 
nary.” Not  until  this  year  has  much  been  done  in 
the  Art  of  Teaching  Geography.  Heretofore  the 
work  was  more  along  academic  lines.  In  harmony 
with  the  general  spirit  of  the  work,  a good  strong 
course,  based  upon  Redway’s  New  Basis  of  Geog- 
raphy, has  been  given  to  Juniors  and  Seniors. 
This  work  can  be  considered  strictly  normal  work. 

The  work  in  Physiography  has  also  been  upon 
a new  basis,  occasioned  by  the  use  of  the  geograph- 
ical laboratory. 


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The  3rd  Quarter  is  the  first  in  which  Commer- 
cial Geography  has  been  taught  in  this  school  as  a 
differentiated  study.  Much  interest  has  been  tak- 
en in  making  a collection  of  illustrative  material 
for  this  work,  and  a start  has  been  made.  The  col- 
lections should  be  added  to  as  fast  as  possible. 

The  lantern  installed  this  year  is  especially  val- 
uable. No  one  piece  of  apparatus  compares  in  util- 
ity with  the  lantern  in  geographical  study.  Our 
collection  of  slides  should  be  increased,  especially 
along  the  lines  of  commerce  and  industry. 

Much  use  has  been  made  of  the  stereoscope 
this  year.  Pupils  from  the  Elementary  School  have 
made  almost  daily  request  for  the  few  pictures 
that  we  have.  The  student  teachers  are  begin- 
ning to  realize  the  value  of  pictures  in  teaching 
geography. 

A large  number  of  pamphlets  and  gift  pictures 
have  been  collected  and  are  classified  and  at  hand 
for  use.  Three  large  pictures  of  considerable  worth 
have  been  contributed,  two  by  the  Union  Pacific 
R.  R.  Co.,  and  one  by  the  German- American  Coffee 
Co.  These  are  upon  the  walls  in  the  laboratory. 

If  geography  is  to  be  lifted  above  the  formal 
grind  that  so  often  characterizes  it,  our  students 
must  leave  the  Normal  School  with  some  of  the 
newer  ideas  of  the  use  of  pictures,  the  value  of  ex- 
cursions, the  use  of  maps  and  models,  the  value 
of  the  sand  table,  and  a good  bibliography  of  geo- 
graphical books.  The  teacher  has  tried  to  accom- 
plish some  of  these  ends. 

W.  J.  Sutherland. 

PHYSICAL  SCIENCE 

I.  Elementary  Science. 

Twelve  weeks’  work  with  the  “910  s”.  Six 
weeks  were  spent  in  the  study  of  astronomical 
facts  and  theories,  and  the  work  here  was  made  to 


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correlate  with  the  University  Extension  lectures 
by  Prof.  Moulton.  Two  members  afterwards 
wrote  essays  on  the  lectures  by  Prof.  Moulton  and 
“made  good”  and  were  allowed  to  take  the  Univer- 
sity examination. 

The  next  six  weeks  they  studied  Elementary 
Chemistry  by  experiments.  In  this  course  many 
subjects  were  treated  in  a way  which  will  be  help- 
ful in  geography  and  future  science  courses.  94 
students  did  this  work. 

II.  Physical  Nature  Study.  For  Normal  students. 

During  the  first  six  weeks  we  studied  special 

subjects  selected  from  Astronomy,  Chemistry  and 
Physics,  it  being  the  aim  to  spend  the  time  on 
those  subjects  which  a grade  teacher  ought  to 
know,  but  subjects  which  the  majority  in  the  class 
had  not  had  in  a regular  class  here  or  elsewhere. 

In  the  last  six  weeks  we  prepared  an  outline 
of  subjects  which  could  be  taught  in  the  various 
grades,  and  in  many  cases  we  discussed  what 
should  be  taught,  in  what  order  and  in  what  way. 
The  students  were  also  referred  to  a few  of  the 
best  reference  works  on  this  subject.  About  thirty 
Juniors  and  Seniors  took  this  work.  (12  weeks). 

III.  Physics.  Milikan  & Gale.  Laboratory  Man- 
uals— Adams,  and  Nichols,  Smith  & Turton. 

This  year  the  class  was  made  up  largely  of 
Seniors  and  Juniors  with  a few  Academic  students. 
During  the  first  quarter,  we  studied  Mechanics  of 
Solids  and  Liquids. 

Recitations  were  conducted  three  times  per 
week  and  on  the  other  two  days  the  students  per- 
formed experiments  in  the  laboratory  double  per- 
iods. Each  experiment  was  “checked  up”  by  me 
and  “written  up”  by  the  students.  In  a similar 
way  the  subjects  of  Heat,  Electricity  and  Magnetism 
were  studied  during  the  second  quarter,  and  Sound 
and  Light  during  the  third  quarter. 


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Forty-five  students  started  the  work  in  two 
sections.  Nearly  all  have  continued  the  work  for 
the  year. 

Our  aim  here  is  to  cover  the  ground  of  High 
School  Physics  in  much  the  same  way  as  is  done  in 
our  best  four-year  High  Schools. 

IV.  Chemistry.  Text:  A Modern  Chemistry.  By 
Peters.  Experiments  by  same  author. 

Owing  to  the  fact  that  the  Chemical  Labora- 
tory was  not  completed  until  the  end  of  the  first 
quarter,  the  chemistry  class  was  not  organized  till 
the  opening  of  the  second  quarter.  At  this  time 
only  a small  number  could  take  up  new  work  and 
only  ten  students  have  taken  the  work  this  year. 
We  have  considered  the  important  things  in 
Elementary  Chemistry  and  have  made  good  use 
of  our  excellent  Chemical  laboratory.  We  have 
made  a start  in  securing  specimens  for  class  work. 
A good  working  series  of  minerals  is  at  hand. 
Samples  of  oil  have  been  received  from  the  Stand- 
ard Oil  Co.  and  we  have  sent  for  samples  of 
materials  from  the  Carborundum  Company  at 
Niagara  Falls.  It  is  our  plan  to  secure  other 
chemical  products  which  would  be  of  profit  and 
interest  to  the  students  of  Chemistry  Physics  or 
Nature  Study. 

I have  also  outlined  a course  in  Physical  Na- 
ture Study  which  could  be  used,  with  what  Mr. 
Johnson  has  prepared  on  the  Biological  side,  as 
a Nature  Study  course  for  the  grades,  and  can  be 
used  as  such  in  our  Elementary  school,  or  may  be 
united  with  the  Geography  work  as  outlined  by 
Mr.  Sutherland. 

J.  P.  Drake. 

BIOLOGY 

There  were  4 young  men  and  17  young  women; 
21  students  in  all. 

The  class  completed  the  greater  part  of  a text 


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containing  about  540  pages,  and  did  sufficient  lab- 
oratory work  to  illustrate  the  most  important  sub- 
jects. Considerable  field  work  was  done,  includ- 
ing most  of  the  common  plants  upon  the  campus. 

Text  used,  Bergen  & Davis. 

A note  book  was  required. 

The  students  analyzed  some  of  the  common 
wild  flowers,  using  a key  by  the  same  author. 

ZOOLOGY 

There  were  3 young  men  and  sixteen  young 
women;  19  students  in  all. 

The  class  completed  a text  of  about  450  pages, 
and  made  dissections  of  the  most  important  ani- 
mals guided  by  a suitable  laboratory  manual,  and 
aided  by  dissecting  instruments.  Difficult  prepara- 
tions were  used  as  class  demonstrations  and  were 
prepared  by  the  teacher. 

Text  used,  Jordan,  Kellogg  & Heath. 

Manual,  Colton,  Part  2. 

A note  book  was  required  of  each  student  con- 
taining drawings  and  written  description  of  animal 
studied. 


PHYSIOLOGY 

There  were  7 young  men  and  23  young  ladies; 
30  students  in  all. 

The  class  finished  a text  of  about  400  pages, 
and  were  assisted  in  the  understanding  of  the  sub- 
ject by  laboratory  demonstration  by  the  teacher, 
by  the  use  of  an  articulated  skeleton,  models  of 
the  eye,  ear  and  heart,  and  experiments  in  elemen- 
tary chemistry  which  related  to  the  subject  under 
discussion.  In  some  instances  dissections  were 
made  to  illustrate  human  anatomy. 

Martin’s  Human  Body  was  the  text  used. 


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SPECIAL  WORK 

During  the  Spring  Semester,  a course  in 
Elementary  Agriculture  has  been  in  progress. 
The  students  were  required  to  make  a diagram  of 
the  Soil  Experiment  Field,  keep  field  notes  and 
records  as  far  as  the  work  of  the  field  progressed, 
make  germination  tests  of  the  seeds  planted  on  the 
plots,  treat  oat  seed  for  smut,  treat  the  seed  corn 
for  the  corn-root- aphis  and  did  the  actual  check- 
ing and  planting  corn.  They  were  required  to 
make  estimates  of  materials  and  cost  of  putting 
tile  drain  in  the  Soil  Experiment  Field,  keeping 
diagram  and  record.  Before  the  clover  plots  were 
seeded  samples  of  the  clover  seed  were  tested  for 
germination  and  the  percentage  of  foreign  seeds 
mixed  with  the  clover. 

The  Grain  and  Fertilizer  Drill  came  to  the  de- 
partment partly  “knocked  down.”  The  dismount- 
ed parts  were  assembled  and  adjusted  by  the  stu- 
dents and  likewise  the  methods  of  operation  were 
studied  by  the  class. 

Artificial  fertilizers  were  investigated  separate- 
ly, as  to  their  plant  food  value  using  illustrative 
samples  in  the  laboratory,  afterward  these  values 
were  used  as  a basis  of  computation  in  mixing  com- 
plete fertilizers  for  definite  crops,  as  for  example, 
corn,  wheat  and  potatoes.  They  were  required  to 
calculate  the  several  amounts  of  fertilizers  to  be 
applied  upon  the  plots  in  the  Soil  Experiment  Field. 
Each  fertilizer  for  each  plot  was  calculated  and  re- 
corded separately,  and  so  far  as  possible  the  stu- 
dents made  the  preparation  for  application  by 
weighing  out  the  separate  amounts  to  be  applied 
to  each  of  the  plots.  (Our  misfortune  with  the 
Ground  Rock  Phosphate  prevented  us  from  com- 
pletely carrying  out  the  plan  in  full.) 

J.  T.  Johnson. 


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READING 

Public  speaking-Normal. 

A public  speaking  class  was  organized  each 
quarter.  There  were  five  pupils  the  first  quarter, 
twelve  the  second,  and  nine  the  third.  The  work 
was  based  on  narrative  and  descriptive  styles  of 
literature,  the  oration,  and  one  play  of  Shakespeare. 
The  special  aim  of  the  work  was  to  aid  each  pupil 
to  become  a distinct,  natural  speaker.  Members 
of  the  class  often  read  their  selections  in  morning 
exercises,  and  one  masterpiece  oration  contest  was 
held  during  the  second  quarter.  The  work  was  on 
the  whole  very  satisfactory,  a number  of  the  stu- 
dents were  found  to  have  more  than  ordinary  abil- 
ity, and  through  this  class  much  interest  in  oratory 
was  aroused  in  the  school. 

Texts-Cumnock’s  Choice  Readings.  Clark’s 
How  to  Teach. 

READING— ACADEMIC 

There  were  29  pupils  in  this  class  the  first 
semester,  28  the  second.  Common  reading,  artic- 
ulation and  pronunciation  were  the  first  things  em- 
phasized. Careful  study  was  made  of  the  different 
styles  of  selections — gayety,  beauty,  serenity,  love; 
grand,  sublime,  reverential;  oratorical;  the  purpose 
was  to  make  the  pupils  see  the  necessity  of  giving 
each  style  its  true  vocal  interpretation.  In  turn  the 
pupils  read  before  the  class  a simple  narrative,  and 
also  presented  several  memorized  selections.  Dur- 
ing the  last  six  weeks  of  each  semester,  one  Shake- 
spearean play  was  read  with  portions  dramatized. 
Each  pupil  reviewed  extemporaneously  one  play, 
with  the  result  that  they  were  all  better  able  to 
speak  effectively  from  the  platform. 

Text — Cumnock’s  Choice  Readings. 


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READING— ACADEMIC 

This  was  one  of  the  most  interesting  classes 
of  the  year.  There  were  29  pupils  the  first  quar- 
ter, 28  the  second,  22  the  third.  The  aim  of  the 
work  was  to  learn  to  love  to  read.  Many  short 
selections  were  committed  and  read  before  the 
class.  During  the  first  quarter  the  class  dramatized 
and  presented  in  morning  exercises  the  “court 
scene55  from  the  Merchant  of  Venice,  and  in  the 
second  quarter,  Act  III  from  Julius  Caesar.  The 
third  quarter  a different  method  was  pursued. 
The  first  six  weeks  was  spent  in  the  study  of  short 
selections  and  an  endeavor  to  discover  the  style 
of  literature  most  pleasing  to  each  individual. 
At  the  beginning  of  the  second  six  weeks  each 
pupil  bought  a book  which  had  been  carefully  se- 
lected for  him  by  the  instructor  and  the  librarian. 
Each  pupil  read  his  own  and  as  many  of  his  class- 
mates5 books  as  time  permitted.  The  result  of  the 
experiment  was  very  satisfactory,  the  pupils  gain- 
ing a broader  knowledge  of  literature  than  they 
would  from  the  mere  study  of  selections,  and  an 
incentive  was  given  toward  acquiring  a personal 
library. 

Text — Williams’  Choice  Literature. 

Susie  B.  Davis. 


MUSIC 

The  course  offered  to  Academic  students  was 
of  a preparatory  nature. 

Ear  Training, 

Rhythm  work, 

Elementary  Theory, 

Sight  Reading, 

Part  Song  Singing, 

Rote  Song  Singing, 

were  the  most  important  features  of  the  work  done. 


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During  the  year  two  Academic  classes  were 
organized,  the  first  one  beginning  September  24th. 
This  class  had  26  members,  and  was  composed  of 
Academic  students,  and  Normal  students  who  had 
had  no  music  training  were  allowed  to  work  with 
this  class. 

The  second  Academic  class  was  organized  Feb- 
ruary 4th,  with  20  members.  At  the  close  of  the 
second  quarter,  seven  left  the  class  and  eight  en- 
tered it,  and  at  the  close  of  the  third  quarter  there 
were  still  twenty  members  in  the  class.  On  the 
whole,  it  was  the  most  satisfactory  class  in  music 
during  the  year. 

The  course  offered  in  Methods  in  Music  con- 
sisted mainly  of  methods  of  presenting  music  to 
children,  a careful  study  of  a plan  for  eight  years 
work  and  class  teaching  by  the  members  of  the 
class. 

During  the  year  two  classes  were  organized  to 
study  Methods  in  Music.  The  first  class  was  or- 
ganized at  the  beginning  of  the  second  quarter, 
and  consisted  of  13  members.  The  second  was 
organized  at  the  beginning  of  the  third  quarter 
and  had  12  members. 

At  least  two- thirds  of  the  director’s  time  was 
spent  in  the  Elementary  School.  The  first  and 
second  grades  recited  once  a day,  and  were  taught 
many  game,  nature,  occupation,  devotional,  patri- 
otic and  special  exercise  songs.  The  syllables  of 
simple  rote  songs  were  taught  by  rote,  and  rhythm 
drills  and  tone  pictures  of  familar  songs  were 
given. 

The  third  grade  recited  once  a day  and  used 
the  Modern  Music  Primer  as  a text  book.  The 
children  were  taught  many  rote  songs  not  found 
in  the  text  book,  for  the  beauty  and  musical  ex- 
pression found  in  them. 

Original  songs  were  composed  orally  and'  a 
representation  shown  to  the  children. 


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The  fourth  grade  recited  once  a day,  using  the 
First  Book  of  the  Modern  Music  Series  as  a text 
book.  Much  work  not  found  in  the  text  book  was 
used  in  this  grade  also. 

The  fifth  and  sixth  grades  recited  three  times 
each  week,  using  the  Second  Book  of  the  Modern 
Music  Series  as  a text  book. 

The  seventh  and  eighth  grades  recited  three 
times  a week,  using  the  Third  Book  of  the  Modern 
Music  Series  as  a text  book. 

These  grades  made  a special  study  of  familiar 
characteristic  songs  and  gave  a program  of  them. 

The  children  of  the  third,  fourth,  fifth,  sixth, 
seventh  and  eighth  grades  gave  as  the  closing 
day  exercise  an  Operetta — “Boy  Blue” 

The  Elementary  School  Orchestra  was  organ- 
ized with  eight  pieces, — piano,  two  first  violins, 
two  second  violins,  flute,  piccola  and  drum.  The 
orchestra  played  on  special  occasions  and  for 
entertainments. 

The  Supervision  work  was  done  during  the 
third  quarter.  Two  students  taught  music,  one  in 
the  third  grade,  the  other  in  the  fourth.  Plans 
were  made,  studied  and  corrected  by  the  director. 

Maud  Shamel. 

MANUAL  TRAINING 

During  the  past  year,  one  hundred  forty  four 
students  have  taken  Manual  Arts  as  a subject  of 
study.  Of  these,  forty-five  were  in  the  Normal 
School,  sixty-five  academic,  and  thirty-one  9 10. 

Those  in  the  Normal  School  made  a study  of 
the  theory  and  scope  of  Manual  Arts,  the  course 
of  study  and  at  the  same  time  were  taught  simple 
woodwork  together  with  a few  problems  that  in- 
volved the  use  of  cardboard,  paper  and  textiles. 

Students  in  the  academy  and  9 10  have  follow- 
ed a course  in  woodwork  equivalent  to  courses  out- 
lined for  first  year  high  school  work. 


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Projects  made  vary  from  a simple  breadboard 
to  a table,  umbrella  stand  or  piece  of  apparatus  in- 
volving a large  number  of  processes  and  bringing 
into  use  the  various  tools  used  in  woodwork. 

Students  have  been  encouraged  to  use  their 
own  initiative  in  both  design  and  construction. 
Each  student  in  woodwork  has  made  a collection 
of  at  least  ten  native  or  commercial  woods;  cut 
same  to  required  size;  found  market  value,  use  and 
general  characteristics  of  each  specimen. 

Several  articles  have  been  made  for  school  use 
— primary  table,  cupboards,  apparatus  for  science 
work,  models  for  class  use. 

Six  students  have  taken  courses  in  printing. 
Each  student  has  had  opportunity  to  become  ac- 
quainted with  the  various  processes  necessary  in 
the  printing  of  a page  of  matter. 

Between  ninety  and  one  hundred  jobs  of  work 
have  been  printed  during  the  past  year,  some  re- 
quiring ten  impressions  while  others  required  sev- 
eral thousand.  Tickets,  programs,  dodgers,  blanks, 
postcards,  and  folders  with  from  three  to  eight 
pages  with  cover  are  representative  of  work  done. 
In  addition  to  above  all  letter-heads  used  by  the 
school  were  printed. 

Louis  H.  Burch. 

FIRST  YEAR  LATIN 

This  course  covered  the  study  of  the  essentials 
of  Latin  grammar,  the  mastery  of  the  declension  and 
conjugations  and  the  comprehension  of  sentence 
structure  and  the  necessary  rules  of  syntax.  Spe- 
cial attention  was  paid  to  the  acquirement  of  a 
working  vocabulary,  a knowledge  of  the  most  com- 
mon Latin  idioms  and  the  derivation  and  composi- 
tion of  words. 

The  text  used  was  Collar  & Daniells’  First 
Year  Latin.  It  was  very  nearly  completed  this 
year. 

The  class  consisted  of  twenty -one  members. 


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CAESAR 

Four  books  of  Caesar’s  Commentaries  were 
read.  Practice  in  prose  composition  was  based 
upon  the  text.  We  had  much  practice  in  sight 
reading  and  study  of  Roman  Military  customs  and 
the  history  of  the  period. 

The  text  used  was  Allen  and  Greenoughs’ 
Caesar. 


CICERO 

Four  orations  of  Cicero  were  read.  The  text 
used  was  Johnston’s  Cicero.  The  work  extended 
over  two  quarters. 

The  class  consisted  of  seven  members. 

The  class  took  up  the  study  of  Virgil  at  the 
beginning  of  the  third  quarter,  and  read  about  two 
and  one-half  books. 

Knapp’s  Virgil  was  used  as  a text. 

ALGEBRA 

The  work  in  First  Year  Algebra  extended  over 
three  quarters.  About  two  hundred  fifty-six  pages 
of  Fisher  and  Schwatt’s  Secondary  Algebra  were 
covered,  including  the  fundamental  operations,  fac- 
toring, fractions,  simple  equations  of  one  or  more 
unknown  quantities,  Involution,  Evolution  and 
Surds. 

There  were  twenty-seven  members  in  the  class 
during  the  first  quarter,  thirty-one  during  the  sec- 
ond, and  twenty  during  the  third 

Martha  J.  Hanna. 

NINTH  AND  TENTH  GRADES 

Holders  of  Lindly  Scholarships,  other  eighth 
grade  graduates,  and  still  other  students  of  about 
the  same  grade,  who  had  been  recommended  by 
their  county  superintendents,  were  assigned  to  the 
ninth  and  tenth  grades  of  the  Western  Illinois 


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State  Normal  School.  There  were  forty-five  Lind- 
ly  scholarships  and  forty-six  others. 

These  people  were  divided  into  three  sections 
in  some  subjects  and  into  two  in  others.  Academic 
students  who  had  not  completed  the  work  assigned 
to  the  ninth  and  tenth  grades  were  assigned  to 
classes  of  these  grades  in  such  subjects  as  they 
had  not  completed.  This  made  a total  enrollment 
in  some  of  these  subjects  of  one  hundred  two  stu- 
dents. 

The  first  quarter  Algebra,  Greek  History,  Eng- 
lish, and  Elementary  Chemistry  were  studied.  The 
text  in  Algebra  was  Fisher  & Sch watt’s  Secondary; 
in  Greek  History,  Morey’s  Outlines;  in  English, 
Gardiner,  Kittridge  and  Arnold.  Various  texts 
were  used  in  Chemistry. 

Algebra  and  English  were  continued  the  sec- 
ond quarter.  Roman  History  took  the  place  of  the 
Greek.  Any  one  of  the  following  electives  took 
the  place  of  Chemistry:  Music,  Drawing,  German, 
Latin  and  Manual  Training. 

Algebra  and  English  continued  the  third  quar- 
ter. The  same  electives  were  offered  as  in  the  pre- 
vious quarter  and  students  made  up  their  list  of 
subjects  from  these  electives. 

The  Algebra  work  of  the  year  practically  cov- 
ered through  to  Quadratics.  Two  sections  recited 
with  Miss  Grote  and  one  with  Miss  Hanna. 

The  English  work  was  done  in  three  sections. 
Each  of  these  sections  worked  one  quarter  with 
Miss  Davis,  where  the  reading  side  was  emphasis- 
ed; one  quarter  with  Mr.  Hursh  where  the  com- 
position side  was  emphasized;  one  quarter  with  Mr. 
Bayliss  or  Miss  Grote  where  the  grammar  side  was 
emphasized. 

Two  sections  of  the  History  classes  recited 
with  Miss  Grote  and  one  with  Mr.  Dickerson. 

Work  in  electives  and  in  Chemistry  was  done 
by  the  regular  instructors  in  those  subjects. 


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Fully  two-thirds  of  the  students  in  these  grades 
remained  the  entire  year.  The  other  third  found 
it  necessary  to  leave  at  the  close  of  the  winter  quar- 
ter, but  practically  all  of  these  expect  to  return 
next  fall. 

In  January,  at  their  earnest  solicitation,  a lit- 
erary society  known  as  the  Amateurian  Club,  was 
organized  for  and  by  these  students,  with  the  help 
of  Mr.  Bayliss  and  Miss  Grote.  The  purpose  of 
this  organization  as  set  forth  in  its  constitution 
was  to  secure  the  improvement  of  its  members  in 
English  composition,  oratory,  and  the  usages  of 
deliberative  bodies.  Weekly  meetings  were  held. 
Good  programs  were  given,  and  with  very  few 
exceptions  these  programs  were  carried  out  as 
originally  prepared  by  the  committee.  All  members 
were  assigned  to  duty  at  regular  intervals,  so  all 
had  opportunity  to  serve  and  none  were  excused. 

The  usage  of  deliberative  bodies  was  emphasiz- 
ed and  business  was  conducted  in  a business  like 
way.  The  work  of  the  club  was  satisfactory  and  se- 
cured the  desired  results.  A declamatory  contest 
was  given  near  the  close  of  the  school  year.  This 
compared  favorably  with  the  contests  of  the  older 
societies.  The  Anniversary  Program  at  the  close  of 
the  year  was  exceptionally  good  and  included  a 
variety  of  exercises. 

As  a whole  the  work  of  the  ninth  and  tenth 
grades  has  been  strong  and  progressive  and  has 
shown  that  the  Lindly  Scholarship  law  will  bring 
a good  class  of  students  to  our  normal  schools. 

Caroline  Grote. 

THE  COUNTRY  TRAINING  SCHOOL 

District  56,  McDonough  County. 

The  country  training  school  in  District  56, 
McDonough  County,  closed  Friday,  May  81,  1907. 
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has  been  done  in  the  way  of  material  improvement, 
but  the  training  school  side  of  the  problem  has 
developed  considerably  and  without  any  special  or 
conscious  effort  on  our  part,  simply,  as  an  out- 
growth of  local  interest.  Early  in  March  three 
country  school  directors  of  Hancock  County  visited 
the  school  to  investigate  the  building,  especially 
the  basement  and  furnace.  They  seemed  well 
pleased  with  the  situation  and  have  now  begun  the 
construction  of  a modern,  sanitary  building,  much 
like  ours.  In  April,  three  country  teachers,  two 
of  McDonough  county  and  one  of  Pulton  county, 
made  us  a visit.  They,  too,  seemed  favorably  im- 
pressed and  planned  to  return  with  friends  this 
fall.  About  fifty  Normal  school  students  have  been 
out  during  the  fair  weather  of  the  spring.  The 
majority  were  brought  out  in  classes,  but  many 
came  of  their  own  accord. 

One  factor  of  interest  for  the  children  during 
the  spring  months  was  the  school  garden. 

The  closing  day  exercises  were  well  attended 
and  much  enjoyed  by  all.  About  sixty  patrons, 
children  and  friends  of  the  district  were  present. 
The  older  girls  of  the  school  with  some  assistance 
and  direction  served  a two-course  luncheon  to  all 
present.  The  program  was  then  given  and  heart- 
ily received. 

The  work  and  developments  of  the  year  since 
September  17,  1906,  are  here  summarized: 

1.  Purchased  a clock  and  $10  worth  of  needed 
materials. 

2.  Cleaned  the  well,  put  in  a new  pump,  and 
built  two  new  outbuildings. 

3.  Moved  and  turned  the  school  building,  built 
a basement,  added  windows,  and  window  seat. 

4.  Papered  and  painted  the  interior. 

5.  Put  in  a furnace. 

6.  Painted  much  of  the  exterior.  This  was 
done  by  the  children. 


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7.  Removed  an  unsightly  coal  house,  trimmed 
the  trees,  cleared  away  a dilapidated  old  fence, 
graded,  seeded,  and  later,  mowed  the  yard. 

8.  Put  up  a new  mail- box  and  subscribed  for  a 
Chicago  daily. 

9.  Rented  a piano. 

10.  Put  in  work  bench,  made  a book-case  and 
got  a few  new  books. 

11.  Put  in  fifteen  new  seats  and  two  new 
pictures. 

12.  Raised  a garden,  planted  some  vines  and 
shrubs  and  painted  the  outbuildings. 

13.  Graded  and  organized  the  school  and  ac- 
complished a full  year’s  work  in  spite  of  inter- 
ruptions. 

14.  Took  the  children  on  excursions  through  a 
pottery,  a tile  factory,  and  the  Normal  school 
building. 

15.  Had  a Christmas  tree  and  a closing  day 
program. 

As  teacher  of  the  district,  I wish  to  say  in  con- 
clusion, that  the  year  has  been  happy  and  success- 
ful beyond  expectation.  This  has  been  owing 
Largely  to  the  energy,  patience  and  loyalty 
of  the  directors.  They  have,  at  all  times,  shown 
themselves  worthy  of  the  great  trust  put  in  their 
hands  by  the  people  of  the  district  and  the  Trus- 
tees of  the  Normal  school.  The  school  patrons, 
too,  especially  those  having  children  in  school, 
have  done  all  in  their  power  to  contribute  to  these 
results,  and,  like  the  children,  have,  at  all  times, 
“stood  by”  the  little  Brickyard  school. 

Mabel  Carney. 

THE  LIBRARY 

Since  the  opening  of  the  school  in  September 
1906,  1,086  volumes  have  been  purchased  and 
placed  upon  the  shelves  making  the  total  number 
of  volumes  now  in  the  Library  5,136.  While  the 


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greater  part  of  the  reference  work  is  done  in  the 
Reading  room  during  library  hours,  between  100 
and  125  volumes  are  drawn  daily  by  students  for 
home  use. 

Besides  the  books  sent  to  the  elementary  school 
for  regular  reference  work,  a school  room  library 
of  76  volumes  was  selected  and  sent  to  grades  7-8 
to  be  used  as  reading  books  during  the  third  quar- 
ter. 

The  Library  subscribes  for  78  periodicals,  for 
three  daily  and  one  tri-weekly  newspapers  and  the 
Macomb  Weekly  Journal  is  received  regularly  as  a 
gift. 

Ten  seniors  and  one  junior  elected  the  course 
in  Library  economy  which  was  offered  during  the 
third  quarter  and  have  completed  the  work. 

Margaret  Dunbar. 

FIRST  HALF  OF  SUMMER  QUARTER,  1907 

Psychology  and  Education. 

1 Course  in  Principles  of  Teaching-22  students. 

1 Course  in  Elementary  Psychology-12  students. 

Five  general  talks  were  given  on  the  work, 
point  of  view,  and  curriculum  of  our  Elementary 
School. 

From  four  to  six  hours  a day  have  been  de- 
voted to  the  development  of  a course  of  study  for 
our  Elementary  School. 

F.  G.  Bonser. 

PRIMARY  METHODS  CLASS 

The  class  held  twenty-nine  sessions.  The 
following  is  a summary  of  the  work  done: — 

1.  The  special  aims  of  the  primary  school. 

2.  The  equipment  of  a primary  teacher. 

3.  Materials  needed  in  primary  school  and  how  to 

get  them. 

4.  Methods  in  primary  reading  and  spelling. 

5.  Writing. 


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6.  Sense  Training. 

7.  Examination  of  about  fifty  primary  books  to 

find  characteristics  of  good  books. 

8.  A study  of  games  as  a method  of  primary 

education. 

9.  The  study  of  Mother  Goose  Rhymes  with 

adaptations  to  primary  uses. 

10.  A study  of  one  hundred  fables. 

11.  A study  of  phonics  and  a discussion  of  the 

place  and  value. 

12.  Picture  study  and  its  place  in  the  primary 

school. 

13.  First  Grade  History — Home  surroundings. 

14.  Nature  Study. 

15.  First  Grade  Language. 

16.  Study  of  Tree  Man  as  type  of  primitive  life. 

17.  A discussion  of  reading  and  readers  in  the  Se- 

cond Grade. 

18.  Second  Grade  History — The  Cave  Man. 

19.  Eskimo  and  Indian  types  of  primitive  life. 

20.  Second  Grade  Language  work  and  material. 

21.  Physical  Training  for  lower  grades. 

22.  The  place  of  number  work  in  the  primary 

school. 

23.  Appropriate  material  for  music  and  ways  of 

music  training  when  time  is  limited. 

24.  Primary  manual  training  plans.  Application 

to  other  work. 

25.  Language  work  for  Third  Grade — Norse  Myth, 

Music  and  Drama. 

26.  Third  Grade  Geography — Home  Industries. 

27.  Third  Grade  History—  The  Pastoral  stage  of 

life. 

28.  Book  Day.  An  examination  of  about  one 

hundred  books  as  to  their  place  in  primary 
work. 

29.  Story  telling  as  an  art,  with  illustrations  of 

kinds  of  stories  suited  to  mothers’  meetings. 

Cora  M.  Hamilton. 


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ENGLISH 

Grammar: — The  elements  of  the  sentence  and 
the  completion  of  the  predicate.  Parts  of  speech 
and  the  modifications  of  the  same.  Verbs  strong 
and  weak  and  the  verb  phrases  showing  limited 
inflection  in  English  grammar. 

American  Literature: — A brief  study  of  the  Re- 
volution literature.  Special  study  of  the  follow- 
ing: Cooper,  Irving,  Bryant,  Hawthorne,  and 
Emerson.  Themes  and  discussions  of  the  selec- 
tions (wholes)  taken  from  each  author. 

Art  of  Teaching  English: — Methods  of  teaching 
reading,  phonic,  word,  and  sentence  method. 
Language  in  the  grades.  Oral  and  written  composi- 
tion. Arbitrary  forms.  Place  of  technical  grammar. 

Study  of  the  Drama: — Brief  History  of  the 
Drama.  Study  of  one  Greek  play,  Antigone,  and 
two  of  Shakespeare’s,  Lear  and  Twelfth  Night, — 
study  of  plot  and  action  with  each  drama. 

S.  B.  Hursh. 

ENGLISH  7.  READING 

During  the  first  three  weeks  the  work  was 
based  upon  Cumnock’s  choice  Readings.  Empha- 
sis was  laid  on  the  importance  of  “thought  getting 
and  thought  giving”  in  good  reading.  Attention 
was  given  to  clean  enunciation.  The  twelve 
elementary  sounds,  as  presented  by  Cumnock  on 
pp.  16  30,  were  studied  and  much  drill  given 
upon  them.  Some  time  was  given  to  the  chapters 
on  the  distinct  speaker  and  a little  was  given  to 
vocal  purity. 

The  last  three  weeks  were  given  to  a study  of 
Shakespeare’s  Macbeth,  the  entire  play  being  used. 
As  a preliminary  to  this  each  member  read  one 
play  of  Shakespeare  and  told  the  story  in  class. 
Some  attention  was  given  to  the  simple  essentials 
of  a Shakespearean  play. 


Lois  Coffey. 


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MATHEMATICS 

. Courses  Given. 

A course  in  methods  of  teaching  arithmetic, 
for  teachers  already  at  work  or  soon  to  be  at  work. 
Attended  by  thirteen  students. 

A course  in  trigonometry,  covering  the  usual 
work  of  the  freshman  class  in  college.  The  course 
must  be  continued  during  the  second  term.  At- 
tended by  five  students. 

A course  in  modern  arithmetic,  dealing  with 
problems  of  common  economy; — e.  g.  the  chicken 
business,  keeping  a cow,  house-building,  renting, 
banking,  corporations,  etc.  Attended  by  twelve 
students. 

A course  in  solid  geometry,  given  to  one  ear- 
nest student  who  was  especially  anxious  for  such 
work. 

David  L.  Arnold. 

HISTORY 

First  Half  of  the  Fourth  Quarter. 

Four  classes  have  been  taught  as  follows: 


Elementary  Civics,  History  8 19 

History  21 12 

History  20  B 22 

History  9,  Economics 12 


Total, 65 


O.  M.  Dickerson. 
PHYSICAL  SCIENCE 

Course  22  A.  Nature  Study . (Physical) 

In  this  class  we  studied  subjects  selected  from 
Chemistry,  Astronomy,  Physics  and  Physical 
Geograpy,  which  are  helpful  to  teachers  of  Geo- 
graphy and  Nature  Study. 

Suggestive  outlines  for  the  Nature  work  in  the 


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various  grades  were  prepared  and  discussed  in 
class. 

Number  of  students  in  class — 9. 

Number  of  students  receiving  one-half  of  a 
Normal  credit — 8. 

Physics  2.  Mechanics. 

The  work  here  does  not  differ  essentially  from 
that  done  in  a good  high  school. 

The  class  recited  each  day  and  did  the  labora- 
tory work  in  the  afternoon,  working  three  after- 
noons per  week  from  1:45  to  4:00  o’clock.  In  this 
way,  nearly  all  were  able  to  do  twelve  weeks’  work 
in  the  six  weeks. 

Text:  Millikan  & Gale. 

Laboratory  Manual — Adams. 

Number  of  students  in  class — 14. 

Number  of  students  receiving  two-thirds 
Academic  credit — 11. 

Physics  3.  Magnetism  and  Electricity. 

These  subjects  were  studied  in  the  same  way 
as  described  under  Physics  2,  (above)  with  same 
text. 

Number  of  students  in  class — 8. 

Number  of  students  received  two- thirds  Ac- 
ademic credit — 5 

Number  of  students  receiving  one-third  Aca- 
demic credit — 3 . 


Elementary  Chemistry. 

Recitations  daily  and  one  period  daily  in  the 
laboratory. 

Text — Peters. 

Laboratory  Manual — Peters. 

Number  of  students  in  class — 7. 

Number  of  students  receiving  one-half  Aca- 
demic credit — 6. 


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Number  of  students  receiving  one-third  Aca- 
demic credit — 1. 


J.  P.  Drake 

ELEMENTARY  AGRICULTURE 

In  this  class  there  were  seven  young  men  and 
ten  young  women,  a total  of  seventeen  students, 
nearly  all  of  whom  expect  to  teach  next  year. 

The  work  which  was  done  this  term  consisted 
in  careful  study  of  a text,  Agriculture  for  Begin- 
ners, a close  reading  of  a number  of  the  best  bul- 
letins from  the  Experiment  Station,  and  addresses 
found  in  the  Report  of  the  Farmers’  State  Institute, 
together  with  illustrative  laboratory  work. 


BOTANY 

In  this  class  there  were  eight  young  men  and 
ten  young  women,  a total  of  eighteen  students. 

The  work  in  this  class  comprised  the  complete 
work  of  the  regular  Academic  Botany  covering  a 
period  of  twelve  of  the  eighteen  weeks  both  in  text 
and  laboratory  practice.  The  students  came  in 
the  afternoon  for  laboratory  work. 

ZOOLOGY 

In  this  class  there  were  six  young  men  and 
six  young  women,  a total  of  twelve  students.  The 
plan  in  this  subject  was  to  complete  twelve  of  the 
eighteen  weeks’  work,  in  a similar  manner  to  bot- 
any, as  noted  above. 

J.  T.  Johnson 

ALGEBRA  I 

The  members  of  this  class  had  studied  Algebra 
one  year  and  were  reviewing  it  for  the  purpose  of 
teaching. 


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The  texts  used  were  Fisher  and  Schwatt’s 
Secondary  Algebra  and  Wentworth’s  Algebra. 

A rapid  review  was  taken  from  the  beginning 
to  Quadratics. 

There  were  four  members  in  the  class. 

ALGEBRA  II 

This  class  took  up  the  study  of  Algebra  from 
the  beginning  and  worked  through  Facoring. 
There  were  six  students  in  the  class. 

The  text  used  was  Fisher  and  Shwatt’s 
Secondary  Algebra. 

FIRST  YEAR  LATIN 

This  class  consisted  of  four  members  who  had 
had  some  work  in  Latin  and  were  reviewing  it  for 
the  purpose  of  teaching. 

Collar  and  Daniells’  First  Year  Latin  was  the 
text  used.  A rapid  review  of  the  book  has  been 
taken,  the  aim  being  to  prepare  the  student  to  teach 
the  subject  effectively. 

Martha  J.  Hanna. 

REVIEW  OF  COMMON  BRANCHES 

Keview  Arithmetic. 

The  first  two  weeks  were  spent  in  strengthen- 
ing weak  places  in  the  fourth,  fifth  and  sixth  grade 
work  as  outlined  in  the  State  Course  of  Study. 
The  remaining  four  weeks  were  devoted  mainly  to 
the  seventh  year  work.  Much  time  was  given  to 
percentage,  profit  and  loss,  commission  and  bro- 
kerage, stocks  and  bonds,  interest,  banking  busi- 
ness, commercial  discount,  insurance,  and  United 
States  revenues.  The  book-keeping  work  was 
omitted  but  some  attention  was  given  to  the  met- 
ric system. 

Thirty- eight  students  enrolled  in  this  class, 
two-thirds  of  whom  were  in  the  class  the  fulltime. 


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No  particular  text  was  used.  Many  texts  were 
consulted. 

Review  Grammar. 

The  entire  six  weeks  were  devoted  to  the  sev- 
enth year  work.  The  Gowdy  grammar  was  used 
as  a text  as  it  gives  all  the  work  suggested  in  the 
State  Course  of  Study.  Part  I.  of  this  text  was 
satisfactorily  covered.  It  includes  the  sentence 
and  its  essential  element,  the  noun,  the  pronoun, 
the  verb,  verbals,  the  verb  phrase,  the  adjunct, 
the  conjunction,  the  adjective,  the  adverb,  nouns 
and  pronouns  as  adjective  and  adverbial  adjuncts, 
prepositions  and  prepositional  phrases,  adjective, 
adverbial  and  noun  clauses,  and  independent  con- 
structions. Sixty  enrolled  in  this  class.  Two- 
thirds  of  them  were  in  the  class  the  full  six  weeks. 

Review  Geography. 

The  first  two  weeks  were  given  to  the  third, 
fourth  and  fifth  year  geography  of  the  State 
Course.  The  remaining  four  weeks  were  given  to 
seventh  year  work  and  covered  mathematical  geog- 
raphy, the  general  atmospheric  circulation  and  the 
study  of  North  America,  South  America,  and  Eu- 
rasia by  topical  outline.  No  particular  text  was 
followed.  Students  were  advised  to  consult  many 
texts.  Thirty-seven  enrolled  in  this  class.  Three- 
fourths  were  in  it  the  full  six  weeks. 

Review  Physiology. 

The  work  in  this  subject  given  in  the  State 
Course  of  Study  for  seventh  and  eighth  years  was 
covered.  This  includes  a general  survey  of  the 
entire  subject  as  taught  below  the  high  school. 
Some  more  advanced  work  was  added.  Many 
texts  were  consulted  but  none  followed  in  partic- 
ular. Fifteen  students  were  in  this  class,  most  of 
them  for  the  full  time. 


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German. 

The  majority  of  this  class,  seven  in  number, 
were  first  year  German  students,  having  had  but 
six  months’  work.  Some  had  had  less.  Two  had 
had  more.  To  accommodate  this  variety  of  prep- 
aration a little  novelette  by  Heyse  was  selected  as 
the  basis  of  work.  The  title  is  L’Arrabbiata.  The 
edition  used  is  well  arranged  for  class  work.  The 
story,  followed  by  idiomatic  particles,  notes,  exer- 
cises for  retranslation,  conversational  exercises  and 
vocabulary,  furnished  excellent  and  abundant 
material.  Particular  attention  wTas  given  to  the 
reading  and  the  conversational  work. 

Caroline  Grote. 

Music. 

During  this  term  three  classes  met  daily.  One 
class  had  thirteen  members;  one  had  eight  mem- 
bers; and  one  had  thirteen  members;  making  alto- 
gether thirty-four  students  in  the  music  classes. 

The  work  done  was  elementary  in  character. 

The  first  Reader  of  the  New  Educational  Mu- 
sic Course  was  used  as  a text  book.  The  songs  in 
this  book  were  at  first  taught  by  rote.  Rhythm 
developed  from  them  and  the  syllables  and  sight 
reading  taught  through  their  representation.  The 
work  was  method  and  practice  combined. 

A course  of  study  for  eight  grades  was  studied 
and  the  material  carefully  noted. 

Ear  training,  original  melody  construction, 
scale  drills,  rhythm  drills,  keys,  key  signatures, 
time  signatures,  dynamic  terms,  major,  minor  and 
chromatic  scale  building,  study  of  simple  chords, 
and  actual  teaching  of  songs  and  exercises  by  the 
students  were  the  most  important  features  of  the 
work. 

In  the  elementary  school,  lessons  were  given 
three  times  a week  as  model  and  observation  les- 
sons for  visiting  students. 


Maud  Shamel. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  ART  DEPARTMENT 


Number  of  students  enrolled:  183. 

7:40  a.  m.  A Beginners  class  in  Water  Colors. 
Enrolled  24.  Composed  of  primary  and  inexpe- 
rienced teachers. 

Work: — Color  washes,  simple  landscape  and 
flowers,  applied  design  for  tiles,  book  covers,  pro- 
grams. 

8:30  a.  m.  Beginners  class  in  Water  color  and 
Pencil  Drawing.  Enrolled  17.  Composed  mostly 
of  young  teachers. 

Work: — Landscapes,  flowers,  objects,  designs 
for  book  covers,  textiles,  floor  coverings. 

9:20  a.  m.  Advanced  class  in  Pencil  Drawing 
and  Charcoal.  Enrolled  15.  Composed  of  teach- 
ers of  some  experience. 

Work: — Color  values,  space  relations,  and  com- 
position, in  landscape  nature  work,  still  life  and 
design. 

10:40  a.  m.  Advanced  class  in  Water  Colors. 
Enrolled  30.  Composed  of  teachers  of  some  expe- 
rience. 

Work: — Composition,  space  relations  and  color 
values;  in  landscapes,  flowers,  still  life,  applied 
designs  for  book  covers,  wall  paper,  tiles  and  pro- 
grams. 

10:30  a.  m.  Class  in  Blackboard  Sketching. 
Enrolled  28.  Composed  of  teachers  inexperienced 
in  Art  work. 

Work: — Rapid  free  hand  sketching  with  cray- 
on and  charcoal  for  illustrating. 

1:20  p.  m.  A class  of  beginners  in  Clay  Work. 
Enrolled  22. 

Work: — Modelling  in  relief  from  nature,  vase 
forms,  and  pottery. 

2:10  p.  m.  A class  in  Primary  Construction. 
Enrolled  23. 

Work: — Making  simple  objects  suitable  for 


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primary  grades,  processes,  paper  weaving,  book 
marks,  baskets,  napkin  rings.  Weaving — rugs, 
hammocks,  baskets  of  rattan  and  raffia.  Stencil- 
ling. 

3:00  p.  m.  A class  in  Blackboard  Sketching. 
Enrolled  24. 

Jessie  Buckner. 

MANUAL  ARTS 

During  the  six  weeks,  fifty-one  students  were 
enrolled.  Of  these,  thirty-two  took  the  Normal 
Course-Manual  Arts  No.  21,  sixteen  took  the 
Academic  Course  and  three— Miss  Etta  Knowles, 
Mr.  Charles  White  and  Mr.  Henry  Whitney  were 
enrolled  as  special  students  and  spent  the  greater 
part  of  the  time  in  the  shop. 

Miss  Knowles  completed  two  work  benches 
and  a table  for  use  in  her  country  school. 

Mr.  White  acted  as  assistant  and  helped  to 
plan  and  build  projects  for  use  in  this  school.  He 
completed  some  advance  work  in  mechanical  draw- 
ing. 

Mr.  Whitney  completed  5 projects  in  wood- 
working, 10  in  turning,  4 in  Venetian  Iron  work,  2 
in  clay  modeling  and  1 project  in  leather. 

He  made  15  tracings  and  10  plates  in  mechani- 
cal drawing  and  worked  out  a course  in  manual 
training  for  his  use  in  high  school  next  year. 

Louis  H.  Burch. 


INCIDENTAL  EVENTS  OR  WORK 

The  University  Extension  Lecture  Course 
this  year  consisted  of  six  lectures  in  Astronomy 
under  the  general  title — “Other  Worlds  Than 
Ours,”  delivered  by  Prof.  Forest  Ray  Moulton,  of 
the  University  of  Chicago.  The  first  lecture  was 


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delivered  on  the  evening  of  November  26th,  1906, 
and  the  sixth 

On  the  evening  of  December  3,  1906,  Hon. 
John  P.  Hand,  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  state  of  Illinois,  addressed  the  trustees, 
faculty,  students  and  a large  audience  of  friends 
of  the  school,  in  commemoration  of  the  88th  an- 
niversary of  the  admission  of  the  State  of  Illinois 
into  the  Union  of  States. 

In  accordance  with  your  directions  at  the 
meeting  of  the  Board,  held  December  17,  1906.  I 
have  invited  Dr.  Evarts  Boutell  Greene,  Dean  of 
the  College  of  Literature  and  Arts,  and  Professor 
of  History  in  the  University  of  Illinois,  to  deliver 
the  annual  address  on  the  same  date  1907,  and  I 
am  pleased  to  report  that  he  has  consented  to  do  so. 

On  the  evening  of  the  11th  of  February,  1907, 
the  Senior  class,  under  the  direction  of  Miss  Davis, 
presented  Goldsmith’s  ‘‘She  Stoops  to  Conquer” 
very  creditably. 

Sunday  afternoon,  March  31,  a chorus  of  stu- 
dents, under  the  direction  of  Miss  Shamel,  pre- 
sented Stainer’s  “Crucifixion,”  to  a large  and  ap- 
preciative audience. 

Arbor  and  Bird  Day,  Memorial  Day,  and  Flag 
Day  were  observed  in  a suitable  manner  by  all 
departments  of  the  school. 

The  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 
Hon.  Francis  G.  Blair,  addressed  the  school 
December  17,  1906,  and  July  11,  1907. 

The  faculty  and  students  of  the  Summer 
quarter,  attended  in  a body,  the  lecture  of  Booker 


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T.  Washington,  Principal  of  the  Tuskegee  Insti- 
tute, at  the  Macomb  Chautauqua,  July  3,  1907. 

The  programs  of  graduation  week  were  as 
follows: 


1907 


Friday,  May  24. 

Field  Day,  Under  the  direction  of  Miss  Lam- 

kin. 

Friday,  May  31. 

Elementary  School  Day,  Under  the  direction 
of  Miss  Hamilton  and  Miss  Shamel. 

Sunday,  June  2,  2:30  p.  m. 

Principal’s  Address  to  the  Class  of  1907. 

Monday  Evening,  June  3. 

First  Anniversary  of  the  Amateur  Club,  Un- 
der the  direction  of  Miss  Grote. 

Tuesday  Evening,  June  4. 

Inter- Society  Contest,  Emersonian  and  Pla- 
tonian  Societies. 


Wednesday  Morning,  June  5. 

Junior  Class  Day. 

Wednesday  Afternoon,  June  5. 

Senior  Class  Day. 

Wednesday  Evening,  June  5. 

Junior  Reception.  Faculty  Committee — Misses 
Davis,  Shamel  and  Hanna. 

Thursday  Morning,  June  6. 

Fifth  Graduation. 

Thursday  Evening,  June  6. 

Alumni  Reception. 


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The  program  of  graduation  day  was  as  follows: 


Prayer 

Ghorus 

“The  Lord  is  Great” 

Mendelssohn 

Solo 

Selected 

Miss  Ruth  Keefer 

Address 

“The  Trail  of  the  Yankee” 

Hon.  W H.  Stead, 

Attorney  General  of  Illinois 
Ghorus 

“The  Heavens  are  Telling.”  Haydn 

Address 

To  the  Class  of  1907  in  behalf  of  the  Trustees. 

Hon.  Louis  H.  Hanna,  President. 
Presentation  of  Diplomas. 

Song 

“The  Purple  and  Gold”  Alumni  and  School. 


Class  Themes 

Ellen  N.  Ahl:  The  Nature  and  Scope  of  Geography  in 
the  Elementary  Schools. 

Ethel  V.  Anderson:  Need  of  Art  Culture  in  our  Schools. 

Irma  L.  Cordell:  Nature  Study  as  a School  Subject. 

Lois  K.  Cordell:  The  Teacher  as  a Force  in  Community 
Life. 

Ralph  Y.  Cordell:  Manual  Training  as  a Means  of  Edu- 
cation. 

Bert  R.  Dennis:  Education  as  a means  of  Highest  Citi- 
zenship. 

Jessie  L.  Fisher:  Kindergarten  Principles  Applicable  to 
the  Grades. 

Alvaretta  Foster:  Greek  Ideals  Worthy  of  Present  Day 
Study. 


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Florence  D.  Frisk:  The  Origin,  History,  and  Educa- 
tional Value  of  the  Kindergarten. 

Blanche  L.  Fulkerson:  Booker  Washington  as  a Force 
in  the  Making  of  a ‘New  South.’ 

E.  Grace  Griffith:  Contemporary  Problems  in  American 
Education. 

Olive  J.  Johnson:  The  Fairy  Tale  in  the  Education  of 
the  Child. 

Jana  Morey:  The  Educational  Value  of  Play. 

Arthur  L.  Odenweller:  Taxation,  Inheritance  and  In- 
come Taxes  as  Sources  of  State  Revenue. 

Bertha  M.  Purdum:  The  Life  and  Work  of  William  T. 
Harris. 

Mabel  E.  Thompson:  The  Study  of  ‘Emmy  Lou’  from  a 
Pedagogical  Standpoint. 

Mabel  E.  Walker:  The  School  as  a Social  Factor. 

Earl  D.  Walters:  The  Education  of  our  Boys. 

Mary  B.  Watson:  The  Pedagogy  of  Jesus  as  shown  by 
His  Illustrations  and  Teachings. 

Charles  E.  White:  The  Place  of  the  Useful  Arts  in  the 
School  Curriculum. 

Mary  June  Woods:  Physical  Training  and  its  Place  in 
the  School  Curriculum. 

Minnie  M.  Worrell:  The  Changes  in  our  Elementary 
Schools  Resulting  from  the  Industrial  Development  of 
the  Last  Twenty-five  Years. 

Two  phases  of  our  work  stand  out  with  spe- 
cial prominence  in  this  year’s  record, — first, 

Our  Elementary  Schools. 

The  chief  objective  point  of  this  year’s  work 
was  the  development  of  the  elementary  school. 
A Normal  School  cannot  be  4 ‘built  up.”  It  is  not 
a monument  or  a building.  It  is  much  more  like 
a tree  in  its  development.  It  grows.  Moreover, 


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the  heart  of  the  Normal  School  is  its  elementary 
school.  If  that  be  right  and  rightly  related  to 
the  whole  system,  the  Normal  School  is  likely  to 
be  right.  Knowing  this,  not  only  the  Director  of 
the  Training  and  the  training  teachers,  but  all 
other  instructors  whose  work  has  to  do  with  the 
teaching  process  have  given  much  time  and  their 
chief  thought  to  that  branch  of  the  school.  I be- 
lieve they  have  made  decided  progress,  and  that 
next  year  we  may  expect  with  some  confidence 
much  more  definite  and  tangible  results  in  train- 
ing than  heretofore  it  would  have  been  reasonable 
to  expect.  It  should  also  be  kept  in  mind  that  an 
integral  and  important  factor  in  that  part  of  the 
organization  is 

Our  Affiliated  Country  School. 

This  experiment  has  progressed  faster  than 
and  somewhat  beyond  my  expectations.  A detail- 
ed statement  of  what  has  been  done  is  given  else- 
where in  this  report  by  Miss  Carney,  the  training 
teacher  in  charge.  I believe  it  will  be  entirely 
practicable  to  use  this  school  systematically  and 
to  considerable  advantage  next  year  as  a model 
and  for  training  purposes.  In  this  connection,  it 
should  be  reported,  perhaps,  that  we  are  planning 
as  a result  of  conference  with  county  superintend- 
ents in  this  part  of  the  state,  to  organize  next 
year  a special  class  for  the  benefit  of  young  teach- 
ers who  are  preparing  especially  to  teach  in  the 
country  schools.  To  this  class  will  be  admitted 
any  holder  of  a second  grade  teacher’s  certificate, 
and  others  who  may  be  especially  recommended 


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by  their  county  superintendents.  The  instruc- 
tion will  be  based  upon  the  State  Course  of  Study 
and  supplemented  by  quite  elementary  pedagogy 
calculated  to  meet  the  needs  of  this  class  of  teach- 
ers so  far  as  they  vary  from  those  of  all  elemen- 
tary teachers,  as  well  as  systematic  observation 
and  some  practice  teaching  in  our  affiliated  coun- 
try school.  By  this  means  we  expect  to  make  a 
nearer  approach  to  the  redemption  of  the  special 
pledge  of  the  founders  of  this  school.  Second, 

Our  Experiment  Station 

The  Senior  year  book  for  1907  contains  under 
the  date  April  6,  the  laconic  statement — “Mr. 
Hopkins,  of  Urbana,  arrives.”  The  Mr.  Hopkins 
referred  to  is  the  distinguished  Professor  of 
Agronomy  in  the  College  of  Agriculture  in  the 
University  of  Illinois.  The  purpose  of  his  visit 
was  to  examine  the  ground  assigned  by  your  com- 
mittee for  the  soil  experiments,  under  the  direction 
of  Mr.  Johnson,  and  to  establish  a co-operative 
experiment  station  on  our  campus.  It  is  too  ear- 
ly to  hope  to  record  the  first  year’s  work,  nor  do 
we  expect  there  will  be  much,  if  anything,  of  value 
to  report  this  year.  I wish,  however,  to  record 
here  the  plan,  which  is  the  beginning  of  a story 
which  will  continue  for  a number  of  years  and  from 
which  may  be  expected  a distinct  contribution  to 
educational  methods  and  possibly  to  practical 
agriculture  in  Western  Illinois. 

The  Western  Illinois  Normal  Soil  Experiment 
Field  is  located  in  the  northwest  corner  of  the  cam- 
pus on  the  S.  E.  24  acres  of  the  S.  E.  10  of  the  N. 


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E.  40  of  the  N.  W.  ± of  Section  36,  Twp.  6 N.  R.  8 
W.  of  the  fourth  principal  meridian. 

The  Soil  Experiment  Field  is  on  a type  of  soil 
known  as  gray  silt  loam,  natural  timber  land,  and 
is  nearly  level,  situated  in  the  Upper  Illinois 
Glaciation.  The  gray  silt  loam  represents  a large 
area  of  soil  in  the  Upper  Illinois  Glaciation,  but 
not  nearly  so  large  an  area  as  the  brown  silt  loam 
type.  It  is  part  of  the  general  plan  to  have  an 
experiment  field  upon  the  brown  silt  loam  some- 
where upon  representative  land  in  the  near  future. 

The  Soil  Experiment  Field  is  co  operative  and 
is  conducted  by  the  University  of  Illinois  through 
its  College  of  Agriculture  and  Experiment  Station, 
and  the  Western  Illinois  State  Normal  School 
through  its  Department  of  Biology  and  Agricul- 
ture. Prof.  Cyril  G.  Hopkins,  chief  in  Agronomy 
and  Chemistry,  who  is  recognized  as  an  authority 
in  the  fertility  of  soils,  prepared  the  plans  to  be 
used  in  conducting  the  field  experiments.  The 
Normal  School,  as  its  share  of  the  responsibility, 
takes  full  charge  of  the  field  operations  implied  in 
the  plans.  Such  co-operation  provides  for  both 
scientific  and  educative  values  in  the  work  and  it 
is  proposed  to  make  the  .results  as  far-reaching  as 
is  possible.  Not  alone  to  teachers,  and  prospective 
teachers  will  it  be  valuable,  but  as  well  to  persons 
now  engaged  in  agricultural  practice,  and  to  those 
persons  who  are  not  actively  engaged  in  such  prac- 
tice, but  are  interested  in  agricultural  methods  and 
results.  The  Soil  Experiment  Field,  its  methods, 
results  and  records,  are  designed  to  be  useful  to 


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all  interested  persons  who  are  invited  and  always 
welcome  to  visit  the  field  at  their  pleasure  and 
convenience. 

In  order  that  the  plans  may  be  of  greatest  ser- 
vice the  details  are  given  in  the  following  par- 
agraphs as  a guide  to  those  who  wish  to  observe 
the  field  operations  and  investigate  the  results  of 
the  experimental  work.  It  is  suggested,  since  this 
year  is  the  beginning  one.  it  is  not  possible  to  con- 
duct the  field  work  in  the  regular  way  and  the 
results  of  this  year  are  not  to  be  thought  to  be  as 
trustworthy  as  in  succeeding  years.  For  instance, 
it  is  proposed  to  grow  winter  wheat  in  the  rotation , 
but  since  the  experiment  field  was  not  available  till 
this  spring,  the  only  alternative  was  to  substitute 
spring  wheat  in  order  that  the  crops  in  the  rotation 
might  be  represented.  However,  it  is  to  be  borne 
in  mind  that  the  general  aim  is  to  ascertain  what 
this  type  of  soil  is  capable  of  yielding  under  known 
conditions,  and  that  yields,  though  small,  having 
comparative  values  are  quite  as  important  as  large 
yields  without  such  values. 

The  experiment  field  is  divided  into  forty  (40) 
plots,  each  one  rod  square,  and  each  surrounded 
by  a protecting  border  one-quarter  rod  wide.  The 
plots  are  arranged  in  two  divisions,  separated  by 
a sod  strip  one  and  one- half  rods  wide  and  bordered 
by  sod  strips  two  rods  wide  on  the  east  and  west 
and  one  and  one-quarter  rods  wide  on  the  north  and 
south. 

The  individual  plots  are  numbered  from  1 to  5 
from  west  to  east,  and  the  series  of  five  plots  each 
from  100  to  800  from  north  to  south,  In  this  way 


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three  figures  will  give  at  once  the  exact  location 
of  any  plot.  Thus,  plot  503  is  the  middle  plot  in 
the  north  series  of  the  south  division.  Plot  805  is 
the  southeast  corner  plot  of  the  south  division. 

The  four  series  of  the  north  division  are 
devoted  to  a system  of  grain  farming  in  which  the 
humus  and  the  nitrogen  are  to  be  maintained  by 
plowing  under  legume  crops  and  the  residues  of 
other  crops,  such  as  the  stalks  of  the  corn  crop, 
and  possibly  the  straw  from  the  oat  and  wheat 
crops,  and  all  of  the  clover  crop  except  the  seed; 
also,  the  four  series  of  the  south  division  are 
devoted  to  a system  of  live  stock  farming  in  which 
the  crops  are  all  removed  from  the  land,  including 
the  corn  stalks,  straw,  and  clover  hay,  while  farm 
manure  is  to  be  returned  in  proportion  to  the  crops 
produced. 

The  treatment  for  the  north  division  of  plots 
is  as  follows: 

Plot  No.  1 — No  treatment. 

Plot  No.  2 — Legume  treatment  (turning  back 
to  the  soil  everything  grown  upon  the  land 
excepting  grains  and  clover  seed). 

Plot  No.  3 — Legume,  lime. 

Plot  No.  4 — Legume,  lime,  phosphorus. 

Plot  No.  5 — Legume,  lime,  phosphorus,  potas- 
sium. 

For  the  south  division  is  the  following  treat- 
ment: 

Plot  No.  1 — No  treatment. 

Plot  No.  2 — Manure. 

Plot  No.  3 — Manure,  lime. 

Plot  No.  4 — Manure,  lime,  phosphorus. 


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Plot  No.  5 — Manure,  lime,  phosphorus,  potas- 
sium. 

For  each  division  is  to  be  maintained  the  fol- 
lowing four-year  rotation: 

First  year  corn. 

Second  year  oats. 

Third  year  wheat. 

Fourth  year  clover. 

The  rotation  applies  to  each  of  the  four  series 
in  each  division  and  because  there  are  four  series 
in  each  division  it  is  possible  to  have  each  crop 
represented  every  year  and  by  having  two  divisions 
each  crop  is  grown  in  duplicate. 

In  starting  the  work  corn  is  put  on  series  100 
and  500;  oats  on  series  200  and  600;  spring  wheat 
on  series  300  and  700:  and  clover  seeded  without  a 
nurse  crop  on  series  400  and  800. 

The  fertilizer  is  applied  only  on  the  exact  square 
rod,  but  the  crop  to  be  grown  is  planted  on  both 
the  plot  and  the  protecting  borders.  Thus,  in 
planting  the  corn  on  series  100,  on  each  plot  there 
are  seven  hills  square  with  three  (3)  feet  3 3-5  inches 
between  the  hills  each  way,  and  the  exact  plot  line 
lies  half  way  between  the  outside  row  and  the  next 
row  inside.  This  provides  for  a wide  middle  be- 
tween the  two  corn  rows  growing  on  the  division 
strip  between  plots  one  and  two  and  in  all  similar 
places. 

The  border  rows  around  the  plots  will  be 
harvested  and  removed,  but  as  a rule  will  not  be 
weighed.  As  a regular  practice  only  the  plot  rows 
will  be  weighed  and  recorded. 


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In  planting  series  200  and  600  the  oats  are 
drilled  across  the  entire  strip,  lk  rods  wide. 
At  harvest  time  the  oats  growing  on  the  borders 
around  every  plot  will  be  harvested  first  and  re- 
moved, then  the  plots  proper  will  be  harvested, 
removed,  weighed  and  recorded.  In  seeding  the 
oat  plots,  a 5-hoe  drill,  making  drills  8 inches 
apart,  is  used.  Five  times  across  the  plot  makes 
192  inches  between  the  out-side  drill  rows,  while 
the  plot  is  198  inches.  In  other  words  the  outside 
drill  rows  are  within  3 inches  of  the  plot  line.  One 
drill  width  is  seeded  on  the  borders  for  protection. 
This  leaves  an  unseeded  strip  through  the  middle 
of  each  division  strip  about  40  inches  wide. 

For  the  initial  application  of  fertilizers,  manure 
is  applied  at  the  rate  of  8 tons  per  acre  on  series 
500;  6 tons  to  the  acre  on  series*  600;  4 tons  to  the 
acre  on  series  700;  and  2 tons  to  the  acre  on  series 
800.  For  the  next  three  years  8 tons  are  to  be  ap- 
plied to  each  acre  on  the  series  where  clover  is  to 
be  plowed  under  for  corn  and  always  afterward 
the  manure  is  to  be  applied  on  the  clover  ground 
to  be  plowed  for  corn,  but  at  the  rate  in  proportion 
to  the  crops  which  have  been  produced  upon  the 
plot  during  the  preceding  four  years  and  apply 
manure  in  quantity  equal  to  the  air-dried  weight  of 
the  total  crops  produced.  It  is  easily  practicable 
to  produce  that  proportion  of  manure  in  a live- 
stock system  of  farming,  even  where  some  grain 
is  sold.  It  is  to  be  expected,  of  course,  that  wheat 
and  clover  seed  and  possibly  some  corn  and  oats 
will  be  sold  from  live  stock  farms. 


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For  phosphorus  on  plots  4 and  5,  initial  appli- 
cations of  one  ton  to  the  acre  of  rock  phosphate 
were  made  on  series  100  and  500;  1,750  pounds  to 
the  acre  on  series  200  and  600;  1,500  pounds  on  se- 
nses 300  and  700;  1,250  pounds  on  series  400  and 
800.  Afterwards  1,000  pounds  of  rock  phosphate 
are  to  be  applied  to  the  clover  ground  to  be  plow- 
ed under  for  corn. 

For  potassium  on  plot  5 initial  applications  of 
400  pounds  to  the  acre  of  kainio  were  made  on  series 
100  and  500;  300  pounds  to  the  acre  on  series  200 
and  600;  200  pounds  to  the  acre  on  series  300  and 
700;  and  100  pounds  to  the  acre  on  series  400  and 
800.  After  the  first  year  400  pounds  to  the  acre 
are  to  be  applied  on  the  clover  ground  and  the 
clover,  kainit  and  phosphate  are  to  be  plowed  un- 
der for  corn. 

For  lime  initial  applications  of  one  ton  to  the 
acre  of  ground  limestone  were  applied  on  series  300 
and  700;  t of  a ton  on  series  400  and  800;  k a ton  on 
series  100  and  500;  i of  a ton  on  series  200  and  600. 
Afterward  each  year  one  ton  to  the  acre  is  to  be 
applied  on  the  land  after  the  oat  stubble  has  been 
plowed  for  wheat,  working  the  limestone  into  the 
surface  soil  in  the  preparation  of  the  seed  bed  for 
wheat  for  the  special  benefit  of  the  clover  which 
is  to  be  seeded  for  the  following  spring.  Kainit  is 
used  instead  of  other  potassium  salts  for  its  stim- 
ulating effect  rather  than  for  the  element  potas- 
sium, since  there  is  furnished  naturally  in  the  soil 
a sufficient  supply  of  the  element. 

Permanent  gas  pipe  stakes,  fourteen  in  num- 
ber, are  set  in  the  exact  line  of  the  outer  plot  lines, 


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and  exactly  one  rod  from  the  corner  of  the  plot 
proper.  These  gas  pipes  are  li  inches  in  diameter 
and  thirty  (30)  inches  long,  and  they  are  set  down 
so  that  the  top  of  the  stake  comes  just  to  the 
level  of  the  surface  of  the  ground  so  a mower  may 
be  run  over  them.  In  addition  to  these  permanent 
stakes,  other  temporary  stakes  are  placed  to  aid  in 
determining  the  exact  plot  lines  when  seeding  and 
harvesting.”  (J.  T.  Johnson.) 

In  closing  this  review  of  the  year’s  work,  I wish 
to  express  my  appreciation  of  the  fine  spirit  of  co- 
operation which  has  characterized  our  teachers, 
and  the  student  body,  and  my  sincere  thanks  to 
the  Board  of  Trustees  for  their  uniform  and  unani- 
mous confidence,  and  support  of  our  combined 
efforts  to  do  the  work  assigned  us  in  a workman- 
like way. 

Alfred  Bayliss, 

Principal. 


Western  Illinois  State  Normal  School 


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REGISTER  1906-1907. 


Graduates 

1903 


Name 

Post  Office 

McAdams,  Maude  D. 

Lima 

Zuck,  Ora  M. 

Savanna — 2 

1904 

Black,  Margaret  G. 

Industry 

Dodds,  Tessa 

Macomb 

Gainer,  Eleanor 

Monmouth 

Hoskinson,  Helen  M. 

Macomb 

Jones,  Katherine 

Canton 

Kimlin,  Grace 

Quincy 

Murphy,  Mary  E. 

Moline 

Nelson,  Flora  B. 

Lafayette 

Shannon,  Ruth  A. 

Macomb 

Shipp,  Mary  E. 

Macomb 

Simmons,  Mary  Perle 

Farmington 

Smith,  Nellie  L. 

Macomb 

Warnock,  Janett 

Moline 

Weatherhead.  Louesa 

Barstow 

Williams,  Clarence  R. 

Macomb 

Yager,  Edna 

Moline — 16 

Adams,  Martha  F. 
Bell,  Lucy 
Bly,  Myrtle  A. 
Bonham,  Rinna 
Bugg,  J.  Wesley 
Dahlheim,  Lydia 
Foster,  Alena  B. 
Green,  Pansy 
Hamilton,  Edith  B. 
Irvine,  M.  Louise 
Johnson,  Alice  H. 


1905 

Quincy 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Moline 

Macomb 

Tennessee 

Bushnell 

Monmouth 

Rushville 


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Maine 

Post  Office 

Keener,  Oro  S. 

Macomb 

Kirkpatrick,  Bessie 

Macomb 

Legere,  Beulah 

Macomb 

Love,  Glade 

Table  Grove 

McGaughey  Fannie  B. 

Macomb 

Miller,  Mae  R. 

Gladstone 

Moore,  Ellsworth 

Ambrose 

Mustain,  LelandG. 

Macomb 

Parks,  Dollie 

Astoria 

Parks,  Ethel  M. 

Macomb 

Shields,  Eugene  C. 

Summum 

Simmons,  Margaret 

Blandinsville 

Smith,  Grace  M. 

Macomb 

S undine,  Christine 

Moline 

Swanson,  Amy 

Plymouth 

Swanson,  Minnie 

Plymouth 

Wilson,  Mary  A. 

Piasa — 28 

1906 

Anderson,  Mattie 

Moline 

Birdsall,  Grace 

Good  Hope 

Brown,  Mertice 

Roseville 

Burns,  Josephine 

Macomb 

Carlson,  Florence  M. 

Moline 

Chandler,  Lucy 

Macomb 

Crain,  Maggie 

Macomb 

Deems,  Edith 

Macomb 

Delbridge,  Alverdah 

Table  Grove 

Edmonston,  Belle 

Layton 

Foley,  Vera  J. 

Macomb 

Fox,  Charles 

Macomb 

Gill,  Bessie 

Macomb 

Griffith,  Maude 

Macomb 

Gunn,  Thyra 

Quincy 

Gustin,  Harry 

Macomb 

Hoagland,  Henry  E. 

Prairie  City 

Jarvis,  Mary 

Colchester 

Jones,  Lena 

Macomb 

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Name 

Post  Office 

Kirkpatrick,  Clara 

Macomb 

Knowles,  Etta 

Macomb 

Lewis,  Mabel  R. 

Brooklyn 

Litchfield,  Frank 

Astoria 

Long,  Flossie 

Macomb 

McGaughey,  Florence  L.  Macomb 

Melvin,  Bessie  S. 

Sciota 

Melvin,  Mae 

Sciota 

Mills,  Blanche 

Macomb 

Odenweller,  Claude  B. 

Frederick 

Ratekin,  Eva 

Swan  Creek 

Roark,  T.  L. 

Macomb 

Sullivan,  Nettie 

Macomb 

Tipton,  N.  Pearl 

Macomb 

T wyman,  Nancy 

Macomb 

Van  Winkle,  Edith  A. 

Avon 

Williams,  Ruth 

Galva 

Wycoff,  Delia 

Laura — 37 

1907 

Ahl,  Ellen  N. 

Moline 

Anderton,  Ethel  V. 

Macomb 

Cordell,  Irma  L. 

Macomb 

Cordell,  Lois  K. 

Macomb 

Cordell,  Ralph  V. 

Macomb 

Dennis,  Bert  R. 

Macomb 

Fisher,  Jessie  L. 

Macomb 

Foster,  Alvaretta 

Macomb 

Frisk,  Florence  D. 

Moline 

Fulkerson,  Blanche  L. 

Macomb 

Griffith,  E.  Grace 

Macomb 

Johnston,  Olive  J. 

Rushville 

Morey,  Jana 

Macomb 

Odenweller,  Arthur  L . 

Frederick 

Purdum,  Bertha  M. 

Macomb 

Thompson,  Mabel  E. 

Macomb 

Walker,  Mabel  E. 

Macomb 

Walters,  Earl  D. 

Macomb 

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Name 


Post  Office 


Watson,  Mary  E. 
White,  Charles  E. 
Woods,  Mary  June 
Worrell,  Minnie  M, 


Macomb 
Macomb 
Macomb 
Macomb — 22 


Whole  Number  105 
Students 

September,  1906 — August,  1907 


Name 

Benitez,  Francisco 
Cordell,  Ralph  V. 
Cordell,  Vail  R. 

Crabb,  Carl  R. 

Dennis,  Bert  R. 
Dunsworth,  Ebert  R. 
Ellis,  John  Luther 
Head,  Glenn  L. 

Lantz,  Cyrus  W. 
Mackey,  William  H. 
McCall,  Frank  S. 
McCaughey,  Scott 
McConnell,  Wallie 
McMullen,  Arthur 
Odenweller,  Arthur  L. 
Osias,  Camilo 
Paz  de  la,  Fabian 

Rexroat,  Herman 
Rocha,  Zacarias 

Stewart,  Justin 
Taylor,  Ward  H. 
Teodora,  Jose 
Terrill,  Earl 
Thompson,  Arthur 
Torrefranca,  Cirilo 


Post  Office  Credits 

Pagsanghan,  P.  I.  lli 
Macomb  24 

Macomb  12 

Macomb  8 

Macomb  24 

Macomb 

Macomb  8 

Macomb 

Brooklyn 

Macomb  9 

Macomb  12 

Macomb  4i 

Mt.  Sterling  12f 

Mendon  6 

Frederick  24 

Balavan,  Luzan,  P.  I.  14 
San  Fernando,  Pom- 

panga,  P.  I.  9 
Macomb  5 

Tagbilaran,  Bohol, 

P.  I.  11 
Tennessee  4 

Avon  12 

Bay,  Laguna,  P.  I.  12 
Colchester  4 

Macomb  20i 

Figbanan,  Ilio,  P.  I.  11 


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Name  Post  Office  Credits 

Walters,  Earl  D.  Macomb  24 

White,  Charles  E.  Macomb  24 

—27 


Ahl,  Ellen  N. 

Anderton,  Ethel  V. 
Balfour,  Nina 
Banfill,  Lois 
Baxter,  Annette 
Bennett,  Mary  A. 
Berry,  Bessie 
Black,  Junia 
Bly,  Grace 
Bowen,  Lottie 
Bovey,  Alta 
Burnham,  Lenora 
Butterfield,  Hazel 
Campbell,  Nelle  M. 
Chant,  Ethel  E. 
Cordell,  Eula  E. 
Cordell,  Irma 
Cordell,  Lois  K. 

Crabb,  Ella 
Crume,  Grace 
Darke,  Ursula 
Delbridge,  Ruby  J. 
Dewey,  Mrs.  Ida  C. 
Doran,  M.  Anna 
Fisher,  Helen 
Fisher,  Jessie  L. 
Fisher,  Susanne 
Foster,  Alvaretta 
Frisk,  Florence  D. 
Fulkerson,  Blanche  L. 
Gilfry,  Garnet 
Gill,  Ruth 
Griffith,  E.  Grace 


Moline 

24 

Macomb 

24 

Augusta 

3 

Bushnell 

13 

Astoria 

12 

Macomb 

12 

Plymouth 

12 

Macomb 

10 

Macomb 

Macomb 

4* 

Macomb 

3 

Macomb 

1 

Macomb 

12 

Blandinsville 

11 

Stronghurst 

4 

Macomb 

Macomb 

24 

Macomb 

24 

Macomb 

1 

Blandinsville 

Macomb 

12 

Colchester 

3 

Macomb 

Tennessee 

12 

Macomb 

Macomb 

24 

Macomb 

1 

Macomb 

24 

Moline 

24 

Macomb 

24 

Macomb 

11 

Macomb 

Macomb 

24 

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Name 

Gustin,  Cordie 
Guthrie,  Nora 
Johnson,  Olive  J. 
Justus,  Ethel  C. 

Kidd,  Lilace  M. 
Ledgerwood,  G.  A. 
Luman,  Jessie  A. 
Luman,  Vera  L. 

Main,  Chloe 
McGinnis,  Stella 
Mcllhenny,  Harriet  A. 
Mcllvaine,  Clarice 
Mcllvaine,  Ethlyn 
Miller,  Cora  M. 

Morey,  Jana 
Musson,  Beryl 
Nolkemper,  Henrietta 
Norman,  Bernice  A. 
Norman,  Emma 
Norton,  Ethel  M. 
Pennebaker,  Anna 
Purdum,  Bertha  M. 
Rice,  Florence 
Riggs,  Lena  M. 

Rigney,  Nellie 
Robertson,  Lucy 
Robinson,  Nannie 
Roe,  Amy  L. 

Ruddell,  Bessie 
Scott,  Lucille  R. 

Smith,  Lucy  L. 

Sullivan,  Grace 
Swayze,  Armina 
Swigert,  Blanche  B. 
Thompson,  Mabel 
Thompson,  Olive  F. 
Tunnicliff,  Louise 
Van  Antwerp,  Maude  L. 


Post  Office 

Credits 

Macomb 

11 

Pleasant  Hill 

1 

Rushville 

24 

Macomb 

61 

Astoria 

12 

Macomb 

London  Mills 

2 

London  Mills 

1 

Macomb 

18 

Toulon 

3 

Macomb 

Bushnell 

12 

Bushnell 

9 

Aledo 

4 

Macomb 

24 

Colchester 

12 

Pittsfield 

12 

Kirkwood 

Hi 

Keokuk 

10 

Macomb 

5 

Macomb 

6 

Macomb 

24 

Macomb 

12 

Kirkwood 

3 

Adair 

Macomb 

12 

Plymouth 

Knoxville 

12 

Tennessee 

1 

Macomb 

9 

Macomb 

11 

Macomb 

12 

Macomb 

22 

Rapatee 

11 

Macomb 

24 

Macomb 

4 

Macomb 

7 

Vermont 

12 

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Name 

Post  Office 

Credits 

Walker,  Mabel  E. 

Macomb 

24 

Watson,  Mary 

Macomb 

24 

Wiggins,  Nora 

Plymouth 

12 

Williard,  Merle 

Bowen 

Wilson,  Sylvia 

Colchester 

12 

Woods,  June 

Macomb 

24 

Worrell,  Minnie  M. 

Bowen 

24 

Wyne,  Margaret  R. 

Macomb 

7* 

—79 

Academy 

Barclay,  William  A. 

Macomb 

17* 

Decker,  J.  Elbert 

Colchester 

DeWeese,  Arthur 

Industry 

141 

Eyman,  Ralph  L. 

Golden 

17 

Gilliland,  Samuel 

Nauvoo 

9* 

Horton,  Jesse 

Macomb 

71 

Keeling,  Jesse 

Macomb 

21* 

Kettron,  Henry 

Macomb 

11 

Kirkbride,  Karl 

Macomb 

McGann,  Harry 

Macomb 

7* 

McLain,  Ernest  S. 

Industry 

13 

McMillan,  T.  Howard 

Macomb 

201 

Morrow,  W.  Ray 

Quincy 

17* 

Murphy,  Yern  W. 

Good  Hope 

16* 

Pierce,  Clyde 

Huntsville 

10* 

Rexroat,  Louis  C. 

Macomb 

Rigsbee,  Harry  B. 

Brooklyn 

19* 

Ruffner,  Jay  S. 

Macomb 

8f 

Short,  James  B. 

LaMoille 

22f 

Walters,  Prentice 

Macomb 

16 

Wisherd,  Arthur  L. 

Macomb 

20 

—21 

Aneals,  Pearle 

Fowler 

9 

Arnold,  Louise 

Macomb 

16 

Ausbury,  Goldie 

Adair 

14* 

Baer,  Mary  S. 

Adair 

18* 

Baer,  Susanna  E. 

Adair 

15 

Blythe,  Mary  P. 

Dahinda 

17* 

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Name 

Bobbitt,  M.  Elosia 
Braden,  Myrtle  T. 
Buckley,  Verna 
Chadderdon,  Hazel 
Chandler,  Blanche 
Conner,  Minnie 
Coyner,  Myrtle 
Craig,  Lucy 
Davis,  Alice 
Dunn,  Nellie  F. 

Ellis,  Flora 
Elwell,  Reba  O. 
Foster,  Beatrice 
Fowler,  Maud 
Hoelscher,  Esther  L. 
Hoelscher,  Viola  B. 
Hollar,  Stella  M. 
Humberd,  Nora 
Hushman,  Frances 
Jebb,  Martha 
Kessler,  Lulu 
Koontz,  Goldie 
Kreuter,  Katie 
Leighty,  Belle 
Lewis,  Mary  B. 
Martin,  Selma 
Matheny,  Carrie  B. 
McCormick,  Ora 
McGaughey,  Julia 
McKelvie,  Celesta 
Michaels,  Mary 
Milan,  Mrs.  Margaret 
Miller,  Nellie  E. 
Miner,  Mary  E. 
Mitchell,  Kathryn 
Murphy,  Beulah 
Powell,  Martha 
Reeder,  Frances 


Post  Office 

Credits 

Adair 

13 

Beardstown 

12 

Macomb 

4 

Adair 

Adair 

16* 

Adair 

151 

Macomb 

11* 

Macomb 

15 

Roseville 

14 

Plymouth 

21 

Macomb 

16 

Macomb 

23 

Macomb 

17 

Brooklyn 

19* 

Brooklyn 

22* 

Brooklyn 

21* 

Colchester 

19* 

Sciota 

15* 

Moline 

Monmouth 

14* 

Stronghurst 

20* 

Macomb 

91 

Industry 

Macomb 

11* 

Macomb 

21| 

Gerlaw 

14* 

Industry 

Vermont 

1* 

Viola 

Littleton 

12| 

Media 

13* 

Galesburg 

Macomb 

21* 

Adair 

22* 

Lincoln 

Bardolph 

7* 

Plymouth 

12 

Quincy 

4 

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Name 

Rexroat,  Florence 
Roche,  Catherine 
Sale,  J.  Luella 
Sallee,  Lucy 
Shields,  Ruth  H. 
Strickland,  Anne 
Strickland,  Louise 
Strickland,  Mary 
Sullivan,  Josephine 
Suttle,  Ethel  M. 
Walton,  Ethel 
Wayland,  Lillie  M. 
Welch,  Garnette 
Welch,  Gertrude 
Yaap,  Minnie 
Yeast,  Gertrude 
—60 

Anderson,  Dale 
Anderson,  George 
Brooking,  Melvin  R. 
Brown,  Ernest 
Browning,  Russell  H. 
Calvert,  Clyde 
Campbell,  Francis 
Carmer,  Glenn  F. 
Damron,  Harold 
Dungan,  Claude 
Earls,  Orral  D. 

Flack,  Earl 
Gard,  Lloyd 
Gustafson,  Clarence 
Hamilton,  Ray  H. 
Hellyer,  Glee 
Hoyt,  Guy  M. 
Knoedler,  Fred 
Leighty,  Elbert  M. 
Litchfield,  Fred 


Post  Office 

Credits 

Macomb 

51 

Raritan 

12 

Geneseo 

21f 

Gerlaw 

12 

Macomb 

201 

Macomb 

6 

Macomb 

6 

Macomb 

61 

Macomb 

9 

Macomb 

19* 

Browning 

20 

Macomb 

16* 

Macomb 

16 

Macomb 

16 

Macomb 

Macomb 

17* 

Swan  Creek 

2 

X 

Good  Hope 
Macomb 

71 

Macomb 

4* 

Chambersburg 

7f 

Macomb 

3* 

Ursa 

5 

Roseville 

2* 

Macomb 

5 

Port  Byron 
Pandon 

8 

Macomb 

6 

New  Canton 

6 

Altona 

2 

Bushnell 

4* 

New  Philadelphia  7f 

Good  Hope 

5* 

Blandinsville 

5 

Vermont 

7 

Adair 

f 

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Name 

Long,  Joseph  R. 
McClure,  Herbert 
McCormick,  Ray 
McLean,  Harold 
Miner,  A.  Burns 
Moore,  Claud 
Morton,  Roy  A. 

Perry,  Sumner 
Pickenpaugh,  Guy 
Pollock,  Don 
Porter,  Audrey  D. 
Reynolds,  Walter 
Rice,  Carl  Epler 
Richardson,  Milgar  J. 
Ruebush,  George 
Ruebush,  Walter 
Sallee,  Roy  M. 
Schleich,  Raymond  L. 
Salisbury,  George 
Simpson,  Stanley  G. 
Smith,  Carl 
Smith,  Harry  V. 
Smith,  Lester  C. 
Sorenson,  Alfred 
Spangler,  Earl  R. 
Stookey,  William  B. 
Switzer,  Ralph 
Taylor,  Roscoe 
Thomson,  M.  Ray 
Thorpe,  Olonzo  W. 
Timmons,  Clarence 
Watson,  Warner  A. 
Welch,  Homer 
—58 

Adkisson,  Leola  H. 
Barnes,  Edna 
Brown,  Birdie 


Post  Office 

Credits 

Ripley 

61 

Winchester 

2 

¥ 

Havana 

5* 

Macomb 

61 

Table  Grove 

6i 

Bluff  City 
Golden 

8 

Swan  Creek 

8§ 

Camden 

n 

Astoria 

7 

Good  Hope 

3 

Golden 

6 

Richfield 

5i 

Camp  Point 

8 

Sciota 

21 

Sciota 

7f 

Gerlaw 

8 

Fairview 

8 

Astoria 

8 

Augusta 

6 

La  Prairie 

5i 

Alexis 

8 

Marietta 

8 

Gerlaw 

8 

Bushnell 

8 

Macomb 

4 

Macomb 

6 

Adair 

3 

Adair 

Si 

Macomb 

21 

Macomb 

Macomb 

11 

Colchester 

6i 

Roseville 

71 

Raritan 

7| 

Roseville 

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Name 

Beckner,  Mary  Ruth 
Brokaw,  Gertrude 
Camp,  Mabel 
Chant,  Ruth  E. 

Davis,  Clara  P. 

Dugan,  Mary 
Edmonston,  Faye 
Flinn,  Bertha  P. 
Foster,  Ella  R. 
Fullmer,  Lena  M. 
Graham,  Nellie 
Gray,  Nellie 
Guthrie,  Grace  A. 
Hagerty,  Josie 
Hunt,  Bernice 
Hursh,  Louva 
Johns,  Sarah 
Landis,  Verna 
Laughlin,  Lucille 
Lawyer,  Ilda 
Lofftus,  Emma 
Long,  Tessa  L. 
McDonald,  Gertrude 
McMillen,  Eva  M. 
Murrell,  Eva 
Murrell,  Lena 
Myers,  Margaret 
Payne,  Garnet 
Pelley,  Mabel 
Purdum,  Ninah  M. 
Reid,  Margaret  Bertha 
Robinson,  Pearle  V. 
Routh,  Jessie  F. 

Sallee,  Frances 
Shires,  Effie 
Simmons,  Mattie 
Simpson,  Mabel 
Stookey,  Jessie 


Post  Office 

Credits 

Swan  Creek 

9 

Stronghurst 

5| 

Macomb 

2 

Stronghust 

9 

Gerlaw 

9 

Chambersburg 

6 

Rushville 

8 

Pittsfield 

31 

Galesburg 

8f 

Macomb 

3* 

Macomb 

81 

Littleton 

61 

Pleasant  Hill 

2f 

Roseville 

4£ 

Macomb 

2 

Macomb 

8 

Paloma 

5i 

Macomb 

t 

Marcelline 

9 

Macomb 

8 

Swan  Creek 

7 

Ripley 

5f 

Macomb 

81 

Macomb 

8 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Birmingham 

Industry 

8f 

Macomb 

41 

Macomb 

71 

Macomb 

51 

Colchester 

5i 

Herman 

8| 

Gerlaw 

8f 

New  Boston 

3 

Macomb 

8i 

Augusta 

4 

Macomb 

4i 

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Name 

Strickland,  Jessie  F. 
Treadway,  Laura 
Treadway,  Mary 
Upham,  Clara 
Whitesell,  Mary 
Williams,  Mary  E. 
Wilson,  Edithe 
Wilson,  Leala 
Yard,  Vera  M. 
Yetter,  Edna 
—51 


Post  Office 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Colchester 

Littleton 

Industry 

Havana 

Macomb 

Havana 


Credits 


8f 

I 


Students  by  Correspondence 
1907 

Butler,  Mrs.  Fannie  L.  Avon 
Nordwall,  Fena  St.  Augustine 

—2 


Summer  Session  1907 


Adair,  Lewis 
Allshouse,  Frank 
Barclay,  Willard 
Bayless,  Albert 
Benitez,  Franciso 
Biddlecombe,  Meade 
Boyer,  Lewis 
Cadwallader,  Alfred 
Cordell,  Ralph  V. 
Crabb,  Carle  R. 
Crandall,  Eddie 
Crandall,  Vivian 
Dennis,  B.  R. 

Ellis,  Luther 
Fisher,  Archie  Jr. 
Harshbarger,  Royal 


Men 

Loraine 

Sciota 

Maples  Mills 

Bardolph 

Pagsanghan,  P.  I. 

Macomb 

Liberty 

Bushnell 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Huntsville 

Huntsville 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Galesburg 


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Name 

Head,  Glenn  L. 

Horton,  Jessie  C. 
Mackey,  W.  H. 

McCall,  Frank  S. 
McCune,  Frank 
McGann,  Lewis 
Morrow,  Ray 
Odenweller,  Arthur  L. 
O’Hern,  Charles  V. 
O’Hern,  Thomas  L. 
Osias,  Camilo 
Paz,  de  la  Fabian 

Pennington,  F.  O. 
Rexroat,  Herman 
Roark,  T.  L. 

Rocha,  Zacarias 
Shindel,  Bruce 
Shupe,  Lester,  C. 
Skinner,  Albert  N. 
Smith,  Frank  C. 
Stewart,  Justin 
Teodora,  Jose 
Thompson,  S.  Arthur 
Torrefranca,  Cirilo 
Walters,  Earl  D. 
Walters,  Prentice 
Weinberg,  J.  Ernest 
White,  C.  E. 

Whitney,  Henry  J.,  B.  ! 
Wright,  Carl 
—46 


Post  Office  Credits 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Loraine 

Macomb 

Quincy 

Frederick 

Vermont 

Vermont 

Balavan,  Union,  P.  I. 

San  Fernando,  Pom- 
panga,  P.  I. 

Colfax 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Tagbilaran,  Bohol,  P.  I. 

Augusta 

Paloma 

Yates  City 

Scottsburg 

Tennessee 

Bay,  Laguna,  P.  I. 

Macomb 

Figbanan,  Ilio,  P.  I. 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Augusta 

Macomb 

Geneseo 

Plymouth 


Women 


Alexander,  Carrie  B. 
Allen,  Florence 
Anderton,  Ethel  V. 
Armstrong,  Sarah  L. 


Blandinsville 

Milan 

Macomb 

Milan 


70 


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Name  Post  Office  Credits 

Ayers,  Lulu  Carthage 

Beckelhymer,  Samantha  Roseville 
Bennett,  Nannie  E.  Colchester 


Berg,  Anna 

Bergstone,  Blenda  V. 
Bice,  Cordie 

Bertholf,  Alma 

Bethel,  Emma 

Bethel,  Jennie 

Black,  Flena 

Black,  Junia 

Black,  Mary 

Blakeley,  E.  Blanche 
Bottorff,  M.  Ruby 
Bowen,  Lottie  J. 
Bowman,  Edna 

Boyles,  Clara 

Bradley,  Crissie 
Bradley,  Ida  M. 
Brooks,  Mary 

Brown,  Jennie 

Brown,  Pearl 

Bugg,  Olive 

Cain,  Besse 

Cale,  Grace 

Cale,  Margaret 
Caldwell,  Odessa 
Calvin,  Mary 

Campbell,  Harriet  Z. 
Cashman,  Ella 
Cashman,  Elizabeth 
Chant,  Ethel  E. 

Choate,  Stella  L. 
Conwell,  Agnes 

Cook,  Ruby 

Cordell,  Grace 

Cordell,  Irma  L. 
Cordell,  Lois  K. 

Nauvoo 

Sherrard 

Colchester 

Augusta 

Bardolph 

Bardolph 

Rushville 

Macomb 

Rushville 

Milan 

Golden 

Colchester 

Colchester 

Golden 

Cameron 

Rushville 

Hermon 

Rio 

Hamilton 

Macomb 

Augusta 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Milan 

Huntsville 

Charleston,  W.  Va. 
Huntsville 

Huntsville 

Stronghurst 

Hamilton 

St.  Augustine 

Carlyle,  Ark. 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

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Name 

Post  Office 

Council,  Florence 

Williamsville 

Crowley,  Margaret 

Edinburg 

Curless,  Althea 

Ursa 

Cutforth,  Leonie 

Liberty 

Deems,  Edith 

Macomb 

Dickens,  Eva 

Beardstown 

Ditto,  Bess 

Seaton 

Doole,  Perle 

Kellersville 

Dormady,  Alice 

Sherrard 

Duncan,  Maude 

Seaton 

Dwyer,  Mamie  C. 

Kewanee 

Egan,  Elizabeth 

Rock  Island 

Eakle,  Mabel 

Colchester 

Engle,  Edna 

Sherrard 

Fife,  Olive 

New  Salem 

Fisher,  Helen 

Macomb 

Fowler,  Gertrude 

Birmingham 

Fuller,  Bertha 

Quincy 

Funk,  Lillian 

Knoxville 

Gettemy,  Eva  V. 

Monmouth 

Gibbs,  Jessie 

Galva 

Goad,  Ruby 

Blandinsville 

Goad,  Ruth 

Blandinsville 

Goertz,  Carrie 

Liberty 

Greene,  Fannie  E. 

Huntsville 

Greuel,  Clara 

Vermont 

Griffith,  Maude 

Macomb 

Gronewald,  Anne 

Nauvoo 

Gronewald,  Norine 

Nauvoo 

Grote,  Augusta 

Springfield 

Gustin,  Cordie 

Macomb 

Haddick,  Ethel 

Sherrard 

Hartman,  Nettie 

Tennessee 

Hendel,  Pearle 

Knoxville 

Hill,  A.  Laurie 

Sterling 

Hitch,  Mildred 

Blandinsville 

Hoben,  Rose 

Galesburg 

Horner,  Jessie  M. 

New  Salem 

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Name 


Post  Office 


Horrell,  Jessie  E. 
Hoffman,  Julia 
Huff,  Ethel 
Jarvis,  Mary 
Johnson,  Mabel 
Johnston,  Olive  B. 
Jones,  Lena 
Kilpatrick,  Dora 
King,  Jean  L. 
Knowles,  Etta 
Knox,  Maude  E. 
Larson,  Ethel 
Luman,  Jessie 
Luman,  Vera 
Mastin,  Edna 
McCormick,  Ora 
McDonald,  Lela 
McGaughey,  Julia  E. 
Mcllhenny,  Mary  E. 
Mcllvaine,  Clarice 
Mcllvaine,  Ethlyn 
McKeever,  Minnie 
McKeon,  Agnes 
McMillen,  Sadie 
Mercer,  Elva 
Miller,  Clara 
Miller,  Cora  M. 

Mills,  Cecile 
Millett,  Ida  M. 
Moore,  Bessie 
Moore,  La  Pearl 
Moore,  Lourena 
Morrow,  Louise 
Murrell,  Eva 
Murrell,  Lena  M. 
Nelson,  Anna 
Nelson,  Lilian 
Noble,  Juanita 


Macomb 

Peru 

Edinburg 

Colchester 

Galesburg 

Vermont 

Macomb 

Abingdon 

Jacksonville 

Macomb 

Yates  City 

Knoxville 

London  Mills 

London  Mills 

Knoxville 

Vermont 

Macomb 

Viola 

Macomb 

Bushnell 

Bushnell 

Winchester 

Nauvoo 

Macomb 

Vermont 

Vermont 

Aledo 

Cameron 

Reynolds 

Roseville 

Rushville 

Rushville 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Loraine 

New  Windsor 

Viola 


Credits 


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Name 

Nolkemper,  Henrietta 
Norris,  Maybelle 
Norton,  E.  May 
O’Donnell,  Ella 
O’Donnell,  Margaret 
O’Hern,  Mary 
O’Hern,  Sarah 
Parks,  Blanche 
Patterson,  Ruth 
Peterson,  Nettie 
Phillips,  Bessie 
Poling,  Elio  M. 

Price,  Isabel 
Purdum,  Bertha  B. 
Randolph,  Louise 
Reed,  Bertha 
Reed,  Blanche 
Reid,  Lulu 
Rhea,  Effie 
Rinehart,  Harriet 
Ritchey,  Lois  C. 
Rodgers,  Cora  M. 
Ross,  Margaret  E. 
Ruberts,  Florence  M. 
Ryan,  Mamie 
Schedel.  Charlotte  A. 
Scott,  Lucile 
Schreiber,  Elizabeth 
Sherman,  Grace 
Shields,  Ruth  H. 
Simmons,  Mary 
Smith,  Grace  M. 
Smith,  Lucy  L. 

Smith,  Maude 
Smith,  Nellie 
Sperry,  Nettie 
Spicer,  Grace 
Stewart,  Florence 


Post  Office  Credits 

Pittsfield 

Abingdon 

Macomb 

Carbon  Cliff 

Carbon  Cliff 

Vermont 

Vermont 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Beardstown 

Blandinsville 

Loraine 

Viola 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Alexis 

Alexis 

Macomb 

Beardstown 

Sciota 

Macomb 

Abingdon 

Rushville 

Blandinsville 

La  Grange  Mo. 

Pittsfield 

Macomb 

Quincy 

Rushville 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

London  Mills 

Vermont 

Macomb 

Bushnell 

Colchester 


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Name 

Surtees,  Sarah 
Swanson,  Ethel 
Swigert,  Blanche  B. 
Strickland,  Jessie 
Thompson,  Olive  F. 
Trego,  Laura  M. 
Trone,  S.  Emma 
Vermillion,  Elsie 
Vose,  Caroline 
Webb,  Felicia  B. 
Weinberg,  Louise 
Winn,  Maude 
Wheeler,  Cora 
Woods,  June 
Worm  an,  Flora 
Wooten,  Ellen 
Worrell,  Minnie 
Wyne,  Margaret  R. 
Yocum,  Bertha, 
—175 

Cordell,  Vail  R. 
Girard,  Lloyd 
Hutchison,  Roy 
Keener,  Oro 
Richardson,  M.  J. 
—5 

Burns,  Juniata 
Byers,  Jessie 
Campbell,  Esther 
Carson,  Minnie 
Chandler,  Lucy  A. 
Cordell,  Eula 
Creel,  Vera 
Enslow,  Amy 
Jacobus,  Nellie 
Lantz,  Mrs.  C.  A. 
Maroe,  Geneva 


Post  Office  Credits 

Colchester 

New  Windsor 

Rapatee 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Sherrard 

Macomb 

Golden 

London  Mills 

Good  Hope 

Augusta 

Viola 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Augusta 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Bardolph 


Macomb 
Canton 
Neponset 
Macomb 
Camp  Point 

Princeton 

Sterling 

Rushville 

Gerlaw 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Macomb 

Kewanee 

Peoria 

Rushville 

Rushville 


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Name 


Post  Office  Credits 


Mooney,  Anna 
O’Hern,  Anna 
Peterson,  Edith 
Polonus,  Edith 
Ramsay,  Lockie 
Rice,  Florence  K. 
Whiteman,  Clare 
—18 


Sterling 

Vermont 

Galva 

Colchester 

Colchester 

Macomb 

Biggsville 


ELEMENTARY  SCHOOL,  SEPTEMBER  17,  1906,  TO  MAY  29,  1907 

Grade  Eight.  Room  4.  Grade  Seven.  Room  10. 


Boys. 

Anfield,  Burley 
Bailey,  Albert 
Brown,  Frank  L. 
Cooper,  Carroll 
Craig,  Delmar 
Erwin,  Clinton 
Gumbart,  Harold 
Hoffman,  Homer 
Livermore,  Johnny 
Mapes,  George 
Mustain,  Floyd 
Yetter,  Rex — 12. 

Girls. 

Adcock,  Florence 
Bagby,  Bertha 
Cordell,  Grace 
Garrison,  Cecil 
Lybarger,  Dora 
Robertson,  Alice 
Ruckle,  Rhue 
Tuggle,  Florence 
Walker,  Caroline— 9. 


Boys. 

Camp,  Arthur 
Brooking,  Florian 
Campbell,  Wayne 
Ervin,  Marquis 
Ferris,  Irwin 
Harding,  Howard 
Hillsom,  Walter  Clair 
Rost,  Roscoe 
Russell,  Scott 
Smith,  George  B. 
Sutherland,  Robert  J. 
Townley,  Wayne 
York,  Jones  Orin — 13. 

Girls. 

Allison,  Margaret 
Avery,  Eva 
Bagby,  Kate 
Bagby,  Flora 
Mickey,  Florence 
Nash,  Lydia 
Purdum,  Marie 
Robertson,  Nellie 
Smith,  Eloise 
Stinson,  Dorothy — 10. 


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Grade  Six.  Room  2. 
Boys. 

Cordell,  Rolland 
McCall,  Ernest 
Nash,  Rolland 
Stocker,  Clifford 
Walters,  Onno 
Wyne,  Harlow 
York,  Ben — 7. 

Girls. 

Allison,  Gertrude 
Ausbury,  Mary 
Brooking,  Isabel 
Bartleson,  Katherine 
Coats,  Helen 
Culp,  Leona 
Darke,  Christie 
Ellison,  Louise 
Glass,  Irene 
Jacobs,  My  la 
Seaton,  Hazel 
Wisecup,  Cleo 
Stevens,  Helen 
Vose,  Mary — 14. 

4th  Grade,  Room  11. 
Boys. 

Erwin,  George 
Fennell,  Herbert 
Garrison,  Sloan 
McDonough,  Edward 
Robertson,  Fred 
Smith,  Lawrence 
Twyman,  Chandler 
Vose,  Lyman 
Stremmel,  George — 9. 


Grade  Five.  Room  12. 
Boys 

Burton,  Iva 
Bagby,  Dale 
Coats,  William 
Russell,  Harold 
Tunnicliff,  Morris 
Watson,  Willard — 6. 


Girls. 

Allison,  Anna 
Bacon,  Dorothy 
Burton,  Mary 
Ellison,  Alice 
Foulds,  Marie 
Grier,  Katherine 
Gesler,  Helen 
Keack,  Ruth 
Lemmer,  Lora 
Snyder,  Sadie 
Upham,  Alice 
York,  Sarah 
Randolph,  Hattie — 13. 


Third  Grade,  Room  1. 
Boys. 

Ausbury,  Elmer 
Baldridge,  James 
Graves,  Harry 
Gumbart,  George 
Head,  Bonnie 
Rexroat,  Delbert 
Ruebush,  Carl 
Wisecup,  Ollie 
Walker,  Wayne — 9. 


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Girls. 

Bradbury,  Marie 
Hahn,  Hazel 
Harlan,  Mary 
Harris,  Irene 
Jacobs,  Pearl 
Lemmer,  Maud 
Newsome,  Maryne 
Rexroat,  Lula 
Scott,  Lavinia 
Walters,  Nina 
Wayland,  Jemima 
Woodwaroth,  Alta — 12. 


Grade  Two.  Room  3. 
Boys. 

Ausbury,  Harold 
Baldridge,  Basil 
Bradbury,  Paul 
Brooking,  Vivian 
Cale,  Frederick 
Ellis,  Roscoe 
Griffith,  Duane 
McGinnis,  Joseph 
Pendell,  Albert 
Russell,  Francis 
Avery,  Harry — 11. 


Girls. 

DeCamp,  Helen 
Campbell,  Jennie 
Hahn,  Ollie 
Kruse,  Naomi — 4. 


Girls. 

Bagby,  Beulah 
Burton,  Anna 
Cale,  Christabel 
Churchill,  Ruth 
Damron,  Lura 
Hickman,  Vera 
Lane,  Martha 
Moore,  Freda 
Pendell,  Grace 
Robertson,  Elsie 
Nichols,  Irene 
Sanders,  Mary 
Siever,  Frances — 13. 

Grade  One.  Room  9. 
Boys. 

Avery,  Willard 
Buckley,  Roy 
Carpenter,  Kenneth 
Carson,  Ralph 
Churchill,  Richard 
Grier,  Louis 
Harris,  Edwin 
Johnson,  Haskett 
Lemmer,  Teddy 
Millsom,  Leroy 
Richards,  Kenneth 
Tipton,  Clarence — 12. 

Girls. 

Bolles,  Corinne 
Butterfield,  Pearl 
Dunblazier,  Pluma 
Ellsworth,  Alice 
Jenkins,  Gertrude 
Wright,  Dorothy — 6. 


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Grade  Six.  Room  12. 
Boys. 

Burton,  Ivan 
Coates,  William 
Russell,  Harold — 3. 


Girls. 

Burton,  Mary 
Ellison,  Alice 
Poulds,  Marie 
Reach,  Ruth 
Snyder,  Sadie 
Upham,  Alice — 6. 

Grade  Five.  Room  12. 
Boys. 

Erwin,  George 
Smith,  Lawrence 
T wyman,  Chandler 
Vose,  Lyman — 4. 


Girls. 

Fuhr,  Esther 
Hahn,  Hazel 
Harlan,  Mary 


Grade  Three.  Room  11. 
Boys. 

Ausbury,  Harold 
Avery,  Harry 
Brooking,  Vivian 
Cale,  Frederick 
Foutch,  Herbert 
Griffith,  Duane 
Pendell,  Albert 
McGinnis,  Joseph 
Walker,  Wayne — 9. 

Girls. 

Avery,  Hazel 
Baldreidge,  Minnie 
Campbell,  Jennie 
Hahn,  Ollie 
Kruse,  Naomi — 5. 


Grade  Two. 

Boys. 

Avery,  Willard 
Bartleson,  Howard 
Grier,  Louis 
Harris,  Edwin 
Johnson,  Haskett 
Lemmer,  Teddy 
Millsom,  Leroy 
Richards,  Kenneth 
Sears,  Edward 
Tipton,  Clarence — 10. 

Girls. 

Bolles,  Corinne 
Butterfield,  Pearl 
Dunblazier,  Pluma 


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Harris,  Irene 
Lemmer,  Maud 
Newsome,  Maryne 
Rexroat,  Lulu 
Walters,  Nina 
Woodworth,  Alta 
Wayland,  Jemima — 10. 

Grade  Four.  Room  11. 
Boys. 

Baldridge,  James 
Porter,  Glade 
Russell,  Francis 
Wisecup,  Ollie — 4. 


Girls. 

Burton,  Anna 
Butterfield,  Ruth 
Cale,  Christabel 
Hickman,  Vera 
Nichols,  Irene 
Pendell,  Grace 
Siever,  Frances 
Watts,  Bessie — 8. 


Jenkins,  Gertrude 
Stevens,  Rosie 
Wright,  Dorothy — 6 


Grade  One.  Room  3. 
Boys. 

Ausbury,  Carl 
Carlson,  William 
Drake,  Russell 
Harding,  Selden 
Hollenbeck,  Albert 
Laughlin,  Mac 
Polk,  Clarence — 7. 

Girls. 

Burton,  Clara 
Campbell,  Elsie 
Craig,  Madge 
Kruse,  Lucile 
Nell,  Mildred 
Newland,  Mildred 
Sears,  Della 
Simmers,  Beatrice — 8. 


Elementary  School 160 

First  Summer  Term 80 

District  56 32 


272 

Counted  Twice 52 


220 


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SUMMARY 

Normal  School  and  Academy,  Men 101 

Women 192 

Summer  Quarter,  Men  53 

” ” Women 191 

Elementary  School,  Boys  and  Girls 220 


757 

Counted  Twice 54 


703 


Western  Illinois  State  Normal  School 


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Former  Members  of  the  Faculty 


Name  Period  of  Service 

Burns,  James  Clinton  Nov.  30,  1901  to  June  8,  1906 

History  and  Civics. 

Fairbank,  Frederick  Joy  Nov.  30,  1901  to  June  8,  1906 

Latin,  German  and  Greek. 

Fairbank,  Mrs.  Winifred  S.  April  8, 1902  to  April  13, 1906 

Director  oe  Music. 

Hazle,  Miss  Laura  Sept.  4,  1903  to  June  8,  1906 

Critic  Teacher. 

Renninger,  John  W.  Oct.  18,  1901  to  Sept.  1,  1905 

Principal. 

Hitchcock,  Miss  Elizabeth  Jan.  2,  1904  to  June  8,  1906 

Critic  Teacher. 

Keith,  Miss  Edna  Sept.  1,  1902  to  Jan.  1,  1907 

Critic  Teacher. 

Layman,  Miss  Elsie  , Jan.  2,  1904  to  Sept.  1,  1904 

Assistant  in  Music. 

Lugenbeel,  W.  E.  June  8,  1904  to  June  8,  1906 

Mathematics,  English. 

Osden,  Miss  Alice  M.  July  10,  1903  to  June  8,  1906 

Reading  and  Expression. 

Roberts,  Homer  L.  Nov.  20,  1901  to  June  8,  1906 

Biological  Sciences. 

Smith,  Seth  L.  Feb.  18,  1902  to  April  1,  1907 

Drawing,  Writing  and  Commercial  Branches. 

Snyder,  Miss  Elizabeth  June  8,  1906  to  June  25,  1906 

Instructor  in  Music. 

Thompson,  J.  C.  1901  to  1903 

Registrar. 

Wilkinson,  E.  S.  Nov.  30,  1901  to  June  8,  1906 

Mathematics. 

Wyne,  Miss  Mary  Nov  21,  1904  to  June  8,  1906 

Assistant  in  Music. 


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Former  Members  of  the  Board  of  T rustees 


Date 

Alfred  Bayliss,  Springfield  (ex- 
William  Hanna,  Golden 
Fred  E.  Harding,  Monmouth 
John  M.  Keefer,  Macomb 
John  S.  Little,  Rushville 
Charles  J.  Searle,  Rock  Island 
B.  M.  Chiperfield,  Canton 
J.  J.  McLallan,  Aurora 
S.  P.  Robinson,  Bloomington 
Charles  J.  Searle,  Rock  Island 
I.  H.  Southwick,  Flora 
Charles  V.  Chandler,  Macomb 
George  W.  Ross,  Carrollton 
S.  A.  Fairbank,  Jacksonville 
F.  E.  Blane,  Petersburg 
E.  H.  Kinney,  Table  Grove 
S.  H.  Trego,  Clayton 
John  M.  Keefer,  Macomb 
John  A.  Mead,  Augusta 


of  A ppointment 
officio  1899-1906) 
June  1,  1899 
June  1,  1899 
June  1,  1899 
June  1,  1899 
June  1,  1899 
July  23,  1900 
July  23,  1900 
July  23,  1900 
July  23,  1900 
July  23,  1900 
April  24,  1901 
May  21,  1901 
June  19,  1901 
June  7,  1902 
Jan.  13,  1903 
Feb.  9,  1904 
Sept.  2,  1904 
Dec.  3,  1904 


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The  Military  Tract  ( Western  Illinois)  State  Normal  School 
was  authorized  April  24,  1899. 

It  was  located  at  Macomb,  August  14,  1900. 

The  corner  stone  was  laid  December  21,  1900. 

School  was  opened  in  the  unfinished  building  September 
25,  1902. 

The  fifth  year  of  school  closed  August  50,  1907,  the  build- 
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obtained  in  this  course  are  interchangeable  in  the  Academy , 
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simple,  clear  and  practical.  This  course,  also,  is  free. 

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for  less  than  this.  It  does  not  pay. 

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